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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

  

  time in the quiet company of your own mind. Look for new music. Read a ... person you will meet at MIT (and for that matter in your life!) knows ... . If you wait for every selfie in front of the admissions door, you

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

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations ... opt to cook for themselves and the drop off in who uses meal plans is so ... to maintain even while we're not living in BC; for example, my floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... , because the initial news still stings for us. But we will say that, after

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  -- something that we already have more experience and passion for. In summary, we think about sticking with course 6 in two ways -- sometimes in an ... -we-will-never-be-good-enough way. We gave this a 3, because we were in an optimistic mood while

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track ... day for my entire senior year (beginning in November when I started

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are ... -800 range. It's a subtle distinction, but an important one in understanding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  composed the draft right away in a stroke of inspiration—an occurrence so ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... . Also in this post, I showed my face for the first time without hiding

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  relations. It turns out that in Navajo culture, it is possible for an eighteen ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I ... that. For the first time in a while, I was facing a stressful situation

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  happily sleep for longer.I  never pulled an all-nighter during my time at ... ally looks and how empathy factor in. What happened in the last dream you ... that language, so what does it mean when I dream up an experiment in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... selection process that students initiate by applying for admission in the ... for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  about the feeling of walking down an empty hallway. In the fall, the empty ... in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  has made me feel like an imposter in the science research community ... Thursday; I had spent an hour in rapture, as our professor read us a piece he ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then ... being in a position of good fortune. five. for the past few days, i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  definitely in the clear for the programs I was looking at, 80th for verbal and ... it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than-you-were-looking-for ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 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?

  

  remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious ... stay in hell Sam looking back at undergrad Keri on getting the most out ... don't formally have the prerequisites for. Go look at the curriculum

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  officers showed in you when they selected you for admission, it is not really ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a ... as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  Admissions Office for an official meeting (with INTENSE snacking involved). In ... a great option for people looking for very passive income so that you ... have previously received an A/A+ in a class might be asked to be a grader

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

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  Boston. Anecdote 3: One of my friends who lives in an apartment in a bit ... around for an hour until 7pm, when I was allowed back on (the reason the ... me back in for free since I had already paid once. Anecdote 5

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the ... show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... definitely stood in the corner furiously looking around us while Andi did the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024