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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know. I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... : save people’s names with how you met them and how you relationally know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  inspired them to visit me more than they would have if I went to UW ... would go ice fishing for northern pikes and then dissect them. How has ... ) and poked their heads out, because I would hear people behind me gasp

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how I ... , I was back in the classroom coteaching my next class, How to Read a ... challenge of the class was explaining how markets worked. I don’t think we did

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  website. 4:15am: For luckily only the second time this term, I didn't have ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... guide you through the laborious process: 6:19pm: I arrive at the Tech

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  few months since I started blogging. I thought I'd record how it ... take the T to Malden Center, and buy lunch at this Chinese place I know ... talk for hours about Stardew Valley and how email works and Clover. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  think my emotional guard would have been more “up”. I’m telling you now so ... in this blog post, and I realized that unfortunately, no matter how ... Opinions Disclaimer: these are my personal beliefs, things I would probably

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  unit would measure. I didn't know how it was going to happen, but it was ... . 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

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  of reflection, I would ask myself how I felt when I saw a perpendicular ... ’s rough buddy’ and what bender I would be, I caved. I started watching the show, and it blew. my. mind. I was amazed at how a children’s show could

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  -jokes. One thing I love about the past two Hunts were the registration websites ... memes. Remember how I mentioned puzzles could be about anything, like ... together, and would arrive later that night. I showed Charles, who was in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  four years here, which I hope would be of use to incoming freshmen ... 't get over how badly I did on this test. It's hilarious because I actually ... bio major, right? How did I do in 7.012 (my very first biology class at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  plane flight home, I was thinking about advice that I would have given ... I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel old and unprepared heading into senior year - I just underwent adult

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... semesters left, and there are at least fifteen or twenty classes that I would ... taste. If I had fully appreciated this as an incoming freshman, I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like ... , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my ... things I found: This really pretty poster from 2011. I’m assuming it was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  ’ll learn how to, I dunno, become a person. And it’s like religion, it’s like ... be on the other.  I was thinking as I walked back from lab about how ... that I was damn [annotation note="how many times have I said this about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  ! How do I get into hacking!? Is it a club or something? Well thought out ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my ... instance that my confusion grew (when I would add an assignment) or lessened

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... join. How should I optimize my courseload to get a headstart? I actually ... lot easier that I just didn't find out about until much later. I've been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  competition would get, how intense exam cut offs would be. What I learned ... how many alarms I set or hours of sleep I got. Often I would wake up ... how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  first, I was a little surprised that great teaching would outrank ... classmates. I think learning how to work under real pressure is beneficial and ... ! World! Impact! 2.00C gave me opportunities I never would have dreamed of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020