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  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

   Random Hall's 40th Birthday Hack.) Birthdays are special times. Times for cakes ... people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to ... where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  example. Third-year students who are interested could also sign up for an ... , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What ... 's been teaching for over fifty years. And then I fell down the rabbit hole

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... was the right place for me to be pre-med...despite the fact that I would ... Greggor Crowley. (Best advisor ever?? Yup, I think so!) Together, we've come up with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  what's up FROSH: just waiting for a burger ME: yeah those burgers are ... is my fifth ME: child FROSH: i felt bad for not eating vegetables ME ... for other groups too FROSH: well ME: specifically mine ME: the toons

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  out pretty well for you, didn't it, Washington? The statue in the ... command was something he had long envisioned for himself and driven towards ... up against British anti-American prejudice, and there wasn’t much he

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... .02 Multivariable pset this morning as well as study for the midterm exam tomorrow ... all time - and I’ve been eagerly awaiting its arrival for months. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class ... and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at MIT. Dorm Rush (n.) - See REX. Engineers (n.) - The proper nickname for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  . Toros Hovhannes Torossian Born in Bardizag, Turkey; Grew up in Roustchuk, Bulgaria Class of 1894 (originally Class of 1893) Candidate for an Advanced ... Engineering Society (with N.T. Paraschos) For the first half of his MIT career

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... enthusiastic about volunteering. This will be very helpful for our future, when

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... student by Alex M. '21 throughlines by Paolo A. '21 I’m Still Here (for ... world that's constructed to help you become yourself for four(ish) years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
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  50 Reflections

  

  . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an ... ="79491" /] The MIT Application for Admission from Secondary School Introduction Set

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... , but we grew up in Denver, where there was no one like us. This wasn ... traveled together in China for a vacation (I was stuck at home interning :P

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms ... Boston. For more about the community service and fun opportunities in ... , you can do research for all four years of college and who knows, maybe

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now, have I built up ... blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta ... testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It ... females are more verbally proficient. A man being tested for spatial ability

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  emails for more pretty graphs"]Waly![/annotation]  Top X Classes by ... . For the rest, I included the class/classes with the highest frequency ... for the Actor (1) 2021 6.115: Microcomputer Project Laboratory (2

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  ="87065" /] Pros booths are great for solo/partner work comfortable seating ... positive but for me is distracting food is so overpriced Fourth Floor ... year that I made a playlist for when I study there...yes, I'm serious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
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  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  . Similarly, N for buildings in north campus and NW for buildings in northwest ... –east. Many maps of MIT are pointed with MIT north up, unlike whereis ... branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020