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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always ... participating in extracurricular activities. Years of attending a school that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... , home-cooked meal is a blessing. LIVING IN BOSTON!!! My sorority’s house ... [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... ="Residence Exploration Week"]REX.[/annotation] In the past, we’ve built rollercoasters, a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  spontaneous but fun. Throwing a good party is really exhilarating and in general ... turn into a group is nice. Now, I live in Pika. Pika is very fun, and I ... . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  are sad In its place is CP✱, a sort of CPW-turned-virtual, that ... the haiku log combinatorics the haikubot is a workaround to post in the ... that the gay heart is now active in my chest the gay heart is a tool to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how ... ’t get much better than a conference championship :)  [caption id

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ) software is ubiquitous these days in mechanical engineering courses, a huge ... The presentation team is doing much better.  We've unified on a ... PST   The actual prototype, on the other hand, is in a minor

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  .[/annotation] Here at MIT, there is a system in place called Excused Absences, or, an ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... the end of a semester, condensed into a single week. So, how exactly do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  . There is a fish tank in my sister's bedroom that is a constant source of gurgling sounds, and a rabbit in a cage that is a constant source of rustling ... 's mother is a horse, and I am a seahorse in a plastic bag slung over the side

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  virtually. The teaching team is amazing, they put in so much effort, and it ... research, and it helped me realize where and how AI is actually used in the ... interested in for a while (Reinforcement Learning), and the professor is also

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  school -- why not take a break and relax knowing that MIT is in your pocket ... than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most ... means easy. The hard part is over (for now). A lot of adMITs will throw

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... ." And I put that in quotes because "smart" is really just a way of saying ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... instrument, or, in its proverbial form, "if all you have is a hammer ... Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  ; Classroom 10-250   10-250 is a classic MIT lecture hall, in the sense that pretty much anyone who’s been a student here in the last 100 years ... does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger. Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  passed away in the line of duty. A friend of mine, who is also a friend of ... violence tend to follow in a vicious cycle that is so so hard to break ... In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  spent probably the first three weeks in a constant state of far too much ... Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across ... . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions ... internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... . Other MIT students who are more capable than me likely have a much easier

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ...  the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  quite as much as I love DUSP. But still, it's a lot). So when I found out ... panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I ... that's okay, really. Because the bruise on my arm is a great conversation

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008