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  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  been before (1-390) which is surprising, as for the last two years all my ... wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last ... for 3 years (almost the whole time I’ve been here). But toward the end

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  make it happen. So Dave uttered the words every geek wants to hear (for ... disks for work computers. By the end of it Erich asked if I'd be ... being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  home for my 4 years at MIT. It was a cool experience starting classes the ... partners in crime for the week. I was on the orange PRC team, and it was ... for registration, a booklet that talks about the recruitment week

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... . No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy - I’ve seen the movie before, and it turns out that the book was written as a screenplay for the movie

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... days all the more. Fridays, for instance, I only have one lecture at 10 AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... you're on the phone with your boyfriend/girlfriend for three hours every ... your major(s), purely for the fun of it. It's important to think about

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ; Well, it turns out that looking like twins, being from the same small ... ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to ... plagued my thoughts for a while, but when I thrust myself into the world of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your ... I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  hellish year for me got buried under the structure and responsibilities of ... of many things. Quarantining for COVID in the safety of my room has ... stories. Not so great for lying awake in the dark at 3am. My family on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there ... reason I write for the admissions blogs is because I really like the ... lecture and went to the library for 3 hours I could read the chapter out of

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  could talk about the things I like, if that will help. We could talk for ... could talk about the things I like, if that will help. We could talk for ... international student from the Philippines, or that I live in East Campus (for not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  Student Support Services (S3), who coordinates the readmission process for ... in. They look around for empty seats and drop their things on a blue or ... panelist, I’d consider coming back around for the food – and also for the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... for the summer, [annotation note="an MIT volleyball player who’s won so ... ], and I often go together. We bob around in the water for a bit, clamber

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  “hardest things available”. looking for challenge, i definitely got what i asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to ... for academic rigor, all with the safety net of [annotation note="all of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something ... am so thankful for all the opportunities MIT has given me. However, as ... are for a lot of people. Sadly, a lot of the high schools that are known

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  comforts would yank us back to the paths drawn for us before we were born ... to MIT for my sophomore year.  The week before I flew off to the ... fretting about the costs of mundane items like toilet paper, for example. But

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  ungestalt, like looking at all the pieces and not seeing how they fit together, like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put

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

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... (again), Meet the Bloggers  You Can't Just Ask for Prefrosh || VEDA #18 ... keep it on the front page for one last day. VEDA has been very fun and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  continually shedding the old enchantment for the new. Zero. My flight going from ... that it was fine to stay for the night because I had friends in MIT that ... the Silver Line buses, looking at the buildings outside, hearing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... student's story about a mother with a brain tumor and the son that cares for ... MIT was the wrong choice for me. I've truly loved the coursework and the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009