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

  

  bio major, right? How did I do in 7.012 (my very first biology class at ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  how MIT was the best school in the world and that I would certainly ... they were going on and on about how cool it would be if I got in, and ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had ... Southern Hemisphere, I read Mihir Desai’s op-ed in the Harvard Crimson, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , 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 ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• 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 ... . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

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

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  call, or maybe even in person in the distant future. I can hear the ... is gone, in the past, and I can’t reasonably expect to return to square ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . All of this was fine and good, and I kind of enjoyed watching how MIT ... route Obama was going to take based on how clean the sidewalk was), but I ... Admissions office. Hmmmmm, I write for a website that prospective students read

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  , I am not saying that looks in general do not affect how people treat ... different day.) 15. How to do a bunch of puzzles I dabble in puzzling, and I ... : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  , 51, and 57, and in practice you can ignore 51 and 57 because no one ... I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  how I know I can do these things? Look at all I've already done." As if ... coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to eat. I see Anderson in the kitchen as well. He talks about how he ... 't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams

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

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the language). I’m getting interested in studying how social ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... -nighters in studio. Linguistics major? Other research areas excited me more. I

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

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... excitement and bubbliness, there's insecurity in comments like "I…have NO idea why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

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

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... how it fits into the experiments you did in class. DO NOT LET THIS

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... . Maybe I’ll write about my application some other day so we can like ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's senior class is the group that came in right as I left. How I am now that ... 's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However, this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009