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• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  didn’t feel as much as a desire to get highly involved. ESP ran programs ... need for academic validation that now went unfilled, in my inability to ... days. it took a lot of mental energy to write something every week, but

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  much less coherent, and it has taken me three weeks to write this blog ... becomes self-cleaning. Afterward, you only need to maintain it by regular ... 're partners now! Let me know if you need to know people in Addis Ababa!", the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the ... 't want to admit people just to have them fail out. But once students have ... from you than they themselves say they need. While I have no reason to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  much install anything you wanted, suddenly not being able to was a shock ... guide to food. Everything depends on your location, budget, and needs. But ... budget, I do try to limit my expenses as much as possible. I'm nicely

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  overly aggressive firehose and it's just too much information all at once ... themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when ... something that needs to be said: current students have biases. Whether we like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in order to become an admissions blogger. You just need to prove somehow that ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  bunch of countries just to do this dance" dance. Both the Tron Guy and ... need to get ALL of their signatures!" When the panel ended I ran up with ... happened to be the stage entrance to the lecture hall we needed into. We just

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , friendly energy to the space)'][/annotation], to tell you more about it ... providing a space dedicated to women’s needs, especially in the context of the ... , the Margaret Cheney was smaller and many repairs needed to be managed

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... now need to decide what you want. Obviously, the hard part is only if ... office's perspective, it is much easier to deal with students' concerns

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  the story, I need you to go watch Amy Cuddy’s TED talk about body ... to William Shatner. OK, this hasn't been a novel so much as an ... too much stress. I almost laughed. I wanted to say, “Please! I went to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... need to think about work/life balance in high school because they had ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... many of you have poured so much of yourselves, your time, and your energy ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  ask, does a fluorescent light need to be controlled? You have likely ... through the bulb, it needs to be able to jump from one atom of metal to the ... in the first place, you need to provide a HUGE voltage. So why aren

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  time you once had for pleasure reading is going to disappear. Keep a list ... if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... , where you go to college doesn't matter as much as what you do with the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  trying to renovate, then they will need to bring the buildings fully up to ... reason why a living space needs to have a culture associated with it. And ... in this crazy place does. Side note: this also led to a lot of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless ... hours before needing to wake up again and turn in the problem set that ... walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  much as things to be studied for they work, but rather as elements of a ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  's more important, now, to begin as you mean to go on. What does that entail ... -friends muscle, which you'll need to strengthen and rely on throughout your first ... . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... easy go-to’s are the following, in case anyone needs some inspo ... ’ve learned other skills, too, like how to do proper user need analysis to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... , and a folder with random files I needed to cart from one place to ... Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015