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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the ... among friends, much less at a table full of strangers. I always ask people ... of the returners at my table are forthcoming about why they left. Some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides ... a small space in a corner of my mind where it slowly eats away at my ... most of my classes to keep me accountable in at least trying to pay

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

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we ... unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way ... jobs and other things you're doing. My favorite rule of thumb: do at ... you're taking has a final exam, but you should at least be aware of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  , something that’s not “legit,” at the conference. I felt ashamed of myself. I ... more. At the beginning of my sophomore year, I decided to join a student ... of rushing off, I have learned to dedicate at least three minutes to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  sedentary and cold. My last dragon at MIT was my finals dragon, about two months ago. Because I’m a senior all but one of my finals were ... of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... noticed three of my fellow passengers staring somewhat obviously at my shirt ... of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  the two of us and the fact that I'm still looking at the Mc ... possible moment (writing headlines and looking at every other piece of ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , and the system was different. At the beginning of every piece, Mr. L ... volunteer at the beginning of the piece, and heard the applause at the end of ... I find it scary or intimidating. At the beginning of freshman year, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was a remarkably warm day today, with highs of 20 degrees. It was the ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of missing people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  note="and i do some of those other things at mit"]do work when I'm home ... my landlord's. This can be very variable in degree of outrageousness ... the numbers of every major or building at MIT. I like to use the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  of warnings can be found at this link, and here are some of MIT VPR ... , is very healthy--at least in college. Actually the extreme end of ... own goals. Good luck! At the end of the day, things will happen, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... semester, or at least more socially acceptable in a sense. Instead of having

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... the side of Goodale (the northeast corner of East Campus):  

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  . 41. Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It ... I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it ... lives of female faculty here']The history of women at MIT is long and rich ... campus for us: the Margaret Cheney Room. I've studied at a lot of lounges

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  + while at MIT, none of these posts were written by LGTBQ+ bloggers about ... I get a strong feeling of sadness and fear and hope all at the same ... -ish things -- a mention of a same-gender significant other, or attendance at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars ... blink. There are ResLife workers at the edge of the mudpit. An RLAD shifts

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In ... yourself what you've gotten yourself into, let me assure you of another truth ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  ball, on the other hand, is a ball only held at the end of the academic ... Photographer taking the survivor photo at St John's Another great perk of ... who helped me overcome many obstacles during my first two years of MIT. At

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012