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• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  at MIT...will it?) Melissa similarly queried: I'm coming from a school with a class of 200 each. That worries me - I don't know what it'll be like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last ... you didn't paint a fair portrait of this work? you should have done more ... with some old friends you haven't seen in a while and reading a new book

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  hasn’t been seen around the lab for several days in a row, he’s probably ... as why there haven't been any outstanding baseball batters for a long ... , disappeared into a large expanse of trees and shrubbery. But I wasn't too

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  This isn’t really a “last blog post,” since I’m sure that every now ... commitments leaking over from a time when you didn’t understand what it is that ... to know there. I didn’t have a “group of friends” in college the same

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  a devastating mistake, and I'm not satisfied with how I'm doing now ... like a miserable place that I won't thrive in. I logically know what I ... grade after trying to ride a skateboard, I wasn’t angry at myself for not

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY ... , as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• 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

  

  ’ll actually take. This is not a joke; I’m dead serious. Don’t let the career ... UROPs. Don’t be stuck working for a lab you don’t want to work for or ... it’ll be a great break from the stress of school. But also don’t

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  lengths weren’t perfectly accurate, our angle wasn’t perfectly 90 degrees. A ... treehouse with a dome on top of it designed by Jordan T. ‘25 and Hanu S. ‘26 ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  pillows, but most of them don't, so getting your own is a pretty good idea ... won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get ... don't tell me I'm assuming too much) so bring toiletries: shampoo

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  :00-2:30 section, which was kind of a relief since I didn't want Raymond seeing me ... hadn't figured out how to do it, and I left feeling like a disappointment ... really bad at code, so I'm sorry if I take a while." Luckily, he replied

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  . Together with photographer PJ I’m covering Residence EXploration, a multiple ... of familiar and friendly faces, some of which I haven’t seen in a while ... fire over embers on the grill. I don’t know any of these people. A song

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  examination at MIT, and I didn't feel a sense of relief. Just moments after the ... or running a 5K. You feel like crap when you're in the midst of it, and ... equipment that costs more than $100K. Take a glass-blowing class; take pistol

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  your opportunities, wherever you are. I’m not a grad admissions expert ... your application stand out (it won’t), but because grad school is a ... contributing to your 401K; a fire that’ll help you answer the existential “what

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I'm ... . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and ... pretty bad so I guess it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that I don’t

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer ... . But it felt to me like they weren't founding a startup because they ... . But you don't have to be a founder. You might have more impact as a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  rumored to live. But we don’t have a sorting hat, so I made a sorting hat ... code up a sorting hat. It won’t be an exact sorting hat—the fact that you ... let me download such a large file, and I couldn’t figure out if or how I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Tiramisu. Butternut squash lasagna. I’m telling you, even if I weren’t a ... usual – a definite first. But that number isn’t surprising. At MIT, 84 ... “slow and steady,” although I’m reluctant to apply it here because MIT isn’t

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take ... should be a course 7 why isn't everyone a course 7"]10.548/HST.525: Tumor ... [annotation note="I'm gonna try and take this as a listener wish me luck

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013