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  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  tolerable for our floor by preparing one of Conner 2's patented senior finals ... breakfast for the rest of the floor on the first day of finals. Since we can ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... people are interested in this question, I find it decidedly odd... sort of ... shortage of breathable O2, I've never experienced discrimination as a female

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the following categories. Some of it is excellent advice. Some of it will not make sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT, especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can’t imagine how much it would terrify me if I read this sort of thing before

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It ... teachers teaching 504 classes. And two thousand is a lot of people. For

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is ... on here about getting admitted, because I think it's not that great of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew with together (bet you guessed that). One of the primary reasons I chose

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  've been satisfying that urge by writing a couple of marginally helpful posts ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of Washington Sq Park and an entire street of yummy treats (aka. St Marks) nearby

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... Prize, alongside such distinguished visionaries as Steve Penfold of York

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to ... major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... alarm goes off after about seven hours of sleep. I hit snooze, because who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  express themselves. Below you'll find accounts of six very different rooms ... a team of hair and makeup artists, as well as relaxing in their personal trailers parked outside of their rooms. No, actually I just ran

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008