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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... privileges to stay in the course. I actually wasn’t sure what to expect for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the ... to the awesomeness). I was thrilled, and everybody in my lab is totally ... me to coach the squad, at least nominally. Mostly I think I just tell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... more multitudes. The truth is, however, that most of this semester has ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... grew up in the town next to the other, they're in the same lab group and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  education the most, and will bring the most benefit to the MIT community ... and Informed) Risk-taking: Going to MIT is risky in itself, considering ... , outstanding intellectual aptitude, a desire to use your knowledge in the world

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in ... city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  problems if you decide to work in a lab. Maybe the most important thing you ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... already doing research in the field I want to dedicate the rest of my life

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... to be able to take pretty much any class, in any department, at any ... math jokes: here 10. There’s always too much to do: the work hard

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

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... note="while academics in the natural sciences tend to submit papers to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be ... elusive. I work in a lab in the Soroka Medical Center, which is across the ... -necrotic compounds that are widely used in drugs today. The hope is that studying these

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  . Fortunately, the actual requirements are outlined here. In order to qualify, you ... stay in hell Sam looking back at undergrad Keri on getting the most out ... deadline, take the whole summer to figure out your courseload, then waltz in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all ... . Failure is inherent in risk, and risk is necessary for success. Applying to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  me to wait until daylight to read the relevant text in most of the ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my ... caffeine was in the tea, but I did not feel tired at all. If I wanted to go

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... snow? *(which is weird because I helped screw the supports together to ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  . This is not to take away from the hard work that everyone puts in to get ... partner in this start-up is just as disingenuous.  Personally, I think the ... up for a place that was supposedly going to unveil the mystery that is

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... in the song that evoke the same emotions. something you did that failed

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  where you go to college is ultimately not the most important thing in your ... welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor ... ’ll miss classes with some of the most respected people in the world, such as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in ... up with people for no reason other than to derp in the hallways and ... seemed to be in agreement. I worked really hard at MIT (most of us did

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013