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

  

  need coming into mit. being thrown into the deep end of mit’s potential ... that i wanted to get into but never really put a lot of time into. here ... ’re really into astronomy), but i feel like i didn’t get as much out of it as i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  place, or grow into it? All colleges boast of limitless opportunities, but ... importance of taking risks, being vulnerable, and making mistakes than I did ... look forward to moving there, settling into a slower pace of life in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a ... and committed his efforts into debunking the mystery of mental illness ... ; Another main takeaway from this semester would be the importance of being

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  -line statements, I have learned the importance of listening. Personally, I have ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  time and energy of a trainee and it is very important to put them in a ... So about a year or so ago, I was looped into an email chain with ... chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the

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

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  would come into my room like “here, I poured you a cup of coffee, you ... My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  important at MIT and a lot of students here struggle with it. The only way to ... move on, don't drag them back down into an unhealthy state of sorrow and ... 's not. The fact of the matter is, when your child gets into their major

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  important, because it's these early design decisions that drive months of ... demonstration – isn’t ideal. A huge amount of work had gone into ... ;Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks have made here on the blogs, such as David's Putting Diversity Into ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , anyway) and kind of tumble into a tall dark room full of chains and ... “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  've met because of them, and the important memories I have that are tied to ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay ... of frats hosted a boat cruise, where my friend took me along as his

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• 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…

  

  to get to know everyone who falls out of bed and into 10-250. The ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the

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

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  privilege of a premiere education into the benefit of those less fortunate ... A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which ... crafting sentences of thoughtful inquiry into spamming the keyboard with ... were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  have contributed some insight into how and why we do the things we do, one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  down, and we went and wandered into a festival of queer joy. It was a ... ..." "You felt seen." "Yeah." Imagine a fish out of water. When I was growing ... broad set of characteristics that set me aside from the other students. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  into your first week of class at MIT sleep-deprived, which… you'd survive ... 're not freshmen/freshpeople until after convocation! ~Conservation of frosh ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to

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

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  system was important for all three of them in their decision to join a D9 ... have ingrained themselves into a lot of people and encouraged them to ... addition of a few more people into the family. People support each other

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020