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• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  : Whenever I went to events it felt like EVERYONE already knew each other, but ... community for everyone! K: If you're thinking about going to MIT (which I know you all are going to go here), then you should really get to know

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  with blood and stood up to go get cleaned up. I found this kind of ... to a quad. I was worried about how I'd handle the decreased privacy ... miss not having to worry much about buying groceries. I did buy some

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  through to associate ourselves by department number (visualized below). I ... interviewees explained how they came to a stronger understanding of their ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  so many conversations with so many people to get me here, but I am here ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and ... , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  mother, brother and I would go to the local grocery store to buy things ... .                                                        (Shanghai's Suzhou River) I asked my mother how to say “Sorry, I’m American ... them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  thing to get under control when you are feeling overwhelmed and/or anxious ... tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of ... to someone else. I hope spending some money on some of these things, or

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  overlap). But here's what I came up with: 1) It's okay to miss home ... begin to understand just how many things there are to learn. 4) Do ... you could get involved in. Not to mention classes. College will be a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  , because I used to easily get motion sickness from them. For the rest of our ... ’s beginning to set. I hate how early the sun sets in winter. We were now waiting ... run, run, run to Charles/MGH. I smelled food. I was getting hungry

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to ... , largely because I wasn’t quite sure how to reconcile my “African-ness” with ... radar. I learned how to cope with my demons, even if it meant pushing back

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  without making things and actively trying to get better. I made a class ... , how I ended up talking to Elizabeth about helping out with some other ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  ? Sure, it's safe to get strawberry (that's what I always get. XP) But why ... : Should I get my teachers/friends to proofread the essay? For my very first ... wanted to write a blog on how to write the essay but I had to use froyo to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , I was back in the classroom coteaching my next class, How to Read a ... suggests, a place where people could come to get help. I helped students ... , how Splash managed to run at all. I felt like I only got to saw a small

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  to get me into medical schools, but also means that I always get a ... 't get over how badly I did on this test. It's hilarious because I actually ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  that I was working to get into MIT. If I got into MIT, I’d be happy. And ... ’ve already given your all, for almost two decades, to get where you are now. I ... When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use ... find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... France. I didn’t know when I would have the money to get to Europe again

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  say. They answer, “So should we.” You don’t remember how to sleep. You ... see me with studs for eyes, I am singing the song which gives birth to ... with me to go across the street. I hear only ResLife’s laughter. I give

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so ... was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more ... everything. I learned how to use Hexo, and did some more web stuff. With the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT twice, I’m obligated to mention that it stopped getting published 2011

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I used to. The good news is you don't have to be an OnlyFans model ... "]UROP[/annotation]/ELO The go-to [annotation note="I just found out other schools use the term ... same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025