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• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a prospective 2023’s message expressing hesitation about choosing MIT. I think a lot of ppl are concerned…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors participate in at least one UROP during their undergraduate years!” Coming into MIT, we knew we wanted…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  CPW is a very exciting time and it’s hard to believe that it’s already been two years since ours! But CPW is honestly just as fun for undergrads here as…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  ~written last friday about last friday~ Today was a really happy day. It’s days like these that make us remember why we love it here so much. (The first part…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  classroom or lab setting.   Isaac G. '17 Don't be afraid to put more on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  . Photo credits to Isaac G. '17 Photo credits to Libby K. '17 Photo

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Like all great creative people, from Claude Monet to Steve Jobs to Franz Kafka, we bloggers too suffer from “writers’ block” or creative blocks and periods of crushing inability to…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time and space. But thanks…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  My freshman spring, I had planned to put up this post about pi day, but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of things, which has manifested…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  This morning my mom showed me a newspaper article and asked me my opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it was interesting enough…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  took them with us to meet up with Ami G. ‘14 MEng ‘16 (like me! but she

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  major, and I was sick at the end of last semester. Michelle G. '18 wrote

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A – “Exceptionally good performance…” B –…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  forms (e.g. teacher recommendations, secondary school report, transcript

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  -Decision Day Posts from MIT Bloggers: Let's Go Fly a Kite by Joel G. '18 A

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  dropped 30 degrees. T--h--i--r--t--y d--e--g--r--e--e--s. Up until this

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  lights.   (pictures courtesy of Banti G. ‘17 and Emma F. ‘15)  

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  Holy Beaver! You’ve received your letter from Hogwarts MIT and you can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport.…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  IT’S FINALS WEEK IT’N FNEALS WEIX IT’ SN NFELS WIX IM’ SN NELFT IX I’M ON NETFLIX It’s finals week. On Monday I have two exams back-to-back, followed by a…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015