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  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there ... , and have success in college and beyond. 1. Senior Year of High School

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• 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…

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... longer Facebook in lieu of working. Then the 133 suite made a Claymation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I wrote A Major Crisis, a blogpost in which I discussed my major prospects and my budding interest in pursuing computer science despite not having

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I ... of them. ** 1. First time using a washing machine. My first time in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal ... smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... acceptance letters anyway). I didn't believe in the "one size fit all" approach

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood ... disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... internships in April, before my internship for 2019 had even started. [caption

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at the problem set on my computer screen, neck craning down. The music in ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair, this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in ... if my body is being pulled apart in different directions. yet at the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... from the stage. In total, I believe 4 rings were raffled off. The raffle

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... blogging isn’t my “job” anymore), even harder. Many things in my life are

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  -profit PERIOD when she was 16. PERIOD has over 800 campus chapters in the US and ... describing the period in which her family rented their home as income while ... own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... without too much trouble. Your first semester in your major is Moo Moo ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  David buys some food. We take a seat and Jason spots us and sits in front ... Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam ... , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm ... different people, toward a different goal, in a different place, and at a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams for a reason, and each team carries its own traditions, culture, and in-jokes. One thing I love about the past two Hunts were the registration websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news ... , pressure washing everything in sight, replacing windows, emptying stores of ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ...  I experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post ... ’s some contents: Part 1: Hi, are you interested in teaching for Splash

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019