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  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  nasty habit to talk in absolutes. I'm guilty of this to. They say things ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... combine them for tasty results. With this revelation in hand, I've gotten

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  (which I mention in my blogger intro). I’ve always thought Jenny was too ... least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn ... diversity of people and options here made me confront the person I was in high

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  and how you ended up here. Imagine how different your life would've been ... about how you can't do this after you graduate. Worry about how you can't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  my scream would sound like; I couldn’t remember ever hearing it before ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... amount of money I can spend in this convenience store that will keep me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our ... in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human ... the table - ways of seeing that might be unlike my own. I love how

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  . ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009 ... about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) blew my mind, how my school was teeming with energy and diversity, how I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central ... food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave ... better. First and foremost, I'm incredibly happy with the people in my life

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  I just returned from a retreat for my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega. We spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a ... sisters in such a beautiful setting, surrounded by antiques and eating meals

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... harsh though, but considering how there are so many premeds in that class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who ... clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ” or “tenet”). In response to “how’s it going”, I sometimes respond with ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect ... there in 4 hours. There's no excuse. I made so many of these trips these ... before I left the US, I LEARNED how to make bubble tea, out of frustration

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't ... opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... crowded café or bar. Walking until I get lost and finding myself in the ... five years ago, in November 2008, when I was 16 and Max was six

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  's how I was in high school. I procrastinated like you wouldn't believe, I ... fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... , biology, and mathematics—and I’ve also had to take courses in physics and ... the very start I wrote with the dual purpose of turning in and posting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023