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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  version.) I entered freshman year with these seven givens in mind, and set ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious ... freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic. Fortunately, the actual requirements are outlined here. In order to qualify, you

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

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  -principal while he logged onto Penn’s website. Drums banged in my chest and throat ... of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four ... fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... around campus and making friends and everything else in-between. Indeed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange ... .  Secure a room in student housing from the Housing Office.   ... the exchange coordinator buys into that argument.  Drop by the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... was rejected by every school, but then she got that fateful tube in the ... got into every school ever! or No one believed in her until she got into

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

    N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best ... people and make event hopping friends. K: Also, if you're interested in ... best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite ... , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do

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

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the ... student in the class showed, into wavy table legs). we also learned how to ... element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in ... , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about them. Note #1: I have of course not worked all of the following jobs in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  it in JavaScript. Well, that ended up changing. Over the past two years, I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... the past two years, in order of when they happened. Of course, these are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... like MIT, a school that was not in a predominantly black area, and had a ... % of graduate students https://web.mit.edu/facts/enrollment.html ). In

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay afloat in the deep end that is my job, and connecting with polar opposites ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• 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

  

  story. Unless it’s a matter of health and safety – in that case, use your best judgment. It’s okay to say no to things too. Leave space in your ... classmates is a good place to start. Staying in your comfort zone is easy, but

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

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me ... gradually see here. 6:30pm: Those in the office dig into the bi

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature

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

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me ... an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014