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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

  

  chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get to know them. Make it a game: try to get a selfie with someone from ... every single day. Not to mention it’s a pretty good incentive to actually

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

  finding place

  

  . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  can be important to building a community that is truly welcoming. The ... differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... just feels TOO IMPORTANT to NOT share with incoming freshmen that might ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look ... 't beat anyone over the head with it too hard, but their importance to the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... might assume that he’s going to have an easier time than a woman of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... -branded tape from what appeared to be a thick file. The file was from the ... cover a host of truly amazing feats. It was my first real introduction to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  important at MIT and a lot of students here struggle with it. The only way to ... pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but ... I had a lot to contemplate about the newer stories I want to write

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... up the slopes to read a [annotation note="some favorites I read this ... , microwave-dependent college student to a burgeoning rival to Gordon Ramsay. My

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... to cook, or contract histoplasmosis while exploring a cave. Looking ... to be a part of, and I have never regretted the decision. 2. Freshman

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied ... everything I could to raise my chances and still only got it up to a 50% - my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  and totally deserve to let off a little steam. And they'll definitely be ... missing the floor Halloween party). It's a fantastic place to come home to ... lot of food and I'm kind of still in a food coma, so I'm not going to

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

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not ... process: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting, fairly rugged

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks ... school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... drove my friends and I to MIT were so nervous. They wanted a detailed ... arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... the day to day? Did she cry over a silly things that I can’t even ... adolescence. At a time where my peers were beginning to learn how to navigate

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  truly learned. But it’s important to me to be a mindful citizen of the ... handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... -actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... . Another seemingly spontaneous addition to our lab’s gadget arsenal was a 3

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015