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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  education from MIT is like… Witty quips living in a state of dreaming ... you're going to get a shot. —Robo-CJ another Disney live action reboot ... living in a foreign country. You're learning something new every day, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• 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

  

  every state. Make friends with people outside of your living group. Sure, the ones you live with are probably all great, but there might be days ... was a sorority girl who lived in West Campus all four years who was a

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

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  Internet for most, or even all, of our lives. Even further, the internet has become so much more intertwined with our daily lives in the past decade ... games. My father owned an Internet Cafe when we lived in the Dominican

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the administration and complaints and choosing a place to live in, we ... DAVE: there are a lot of times where i dont feel like im at all living up ... because they’re romantic. We can’t help but wonder how different our lives

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  society.  She also wants to be involved in students’ lives. I don’t think

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire, to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate

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

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  promised something different. There would be more students living in summer

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

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  me even though their post-graduate lives probably have even more at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we denied five years ago. He and I had emailed a bit when he was denied, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  , me just being yet another ordinary kid living an ordinary life hoping

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  facades, and everything feels friendly and lively and free. Crowds roam the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  people existed in my head. I began to type, and they began to live on dark

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

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  , of pessimism, of worry, of fear and live in the moment, passing on the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  'd spent more time with my living group (French House) freshman fall. I think

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  ’ll look back on these four years as the best years of our lives and the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  living thing and its fossil. A fossil isn't the plant or animal itself: it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  graduate student living in your dorm. Mine does work at the Media Lab, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  supposed to. (Hanging out with friends in my living group, going on road

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008