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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and ... -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put ... too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  colleges in a very similar way - I only applied to places that I [annotation ... disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... that I'm not very good at Course 6, and as a result, not very good at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton ... confident in declaring that Burton 1 is the best floor in Burton-Conner. Maybe ... Family Guy, which is a pun on the fact that Burton-Conner has suites rather

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... year we went fully "online" in our admissions reading process; that is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  YouTube, is a reason (a huge one among others) that I was even able to ... in more depth in one of my essays for a CI-H I took, but the gist is ... platform that has a steady audience. I realized that this is the closest I h

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  that fall semester in 2019, when I took a film class that gave me the ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... I had been gone, and deep down a part of me truly feared that going

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling ... minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• 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 ... that was good advice and I ought to follow it myself. In March, a week ... choice a million times a day, mostly in small ways that escape our notice

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  school because of its name. Aquarius A trait that I've admired in all of ... charge in a group setting as much as I do. As a fire sign, they are known ... strength and a weakness in this process. I expect that your essays will be

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  Verde's – come in. 11:29pm: I discover that our slightly eccentric John '98 has a ... interim at looked at another article in progress. Okay, this is still a long ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  that i didn't know how to understand, so i gesture towards them in ... i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015, so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  .) In that vein, I think that one REX-specific piece of advice is that it ... . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... Philippines, or that I live(d) in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short ... ’s a sign of aging, I guess, but I now think that staying all day in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  ’t get stuck in the bubble, please. I learned the hard way that MIT is a ... regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse ... try to do it with friends—food in college is a social experience. In

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  . 1: See how the elevation of the land is highest near the peak of that ... reserved for situations in which you are completely lost in a hallway that ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  facing the street. I am sharing it with you because 1. There is a store on ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... egg on top. And like that, recipe 1 is done! Plate it up in a nice bowl ... cube, as most 3D modeling softwares have buttons that'll do just that. In

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a panorama of my door, also attached.   YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  . Because in the end, I truly believe that MIT is what it is today because of ... , beautiful and dangerous at the same time. MIT is like that, too, in a way. And ... 't make a whole lot of sense - my apologies. But my point is that it's taken

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... should have expected it, that I probably wasn't a good fit for MIT anyway ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009