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  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  ? My hall is where most of my connections are. Regardless of what time it ... currently live on the First East floor of East Campus.   What are you ... Neuroscience requirements. And it’s been pretty amazing so far. This week, we are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  just the froshies are capable of!). Since we will be cooking then eating ... students' house! (although international students are very welcome!). Actually, about 2/3 of our house are domestic students, and we try to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  the elevators in the Stata Center are only semi-functional, before ... the rest of this story, and some of you who are reading this will live ... , a free car, and the right to name a state park after themselves. Some

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  purgatory in which you are your own god. You have choices. You can make IAP as ... those who make up campus are no longer physically present. One night in ... possibly adhere to modern fire safety rules but are pleasurable to cook in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  MIT is different. Here there's not just too many things; there are many ... have had to learn anyway, at some point along the way: so many of us are ... Trouble to get a little helping hand. plus *all* mit undergrads are covered

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  campus is already gearing up for the mad rush for jobs and free goodies. People are lining up in Lobby 10 to collect their booklets and nametags; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  According to Wikipedia, mad scientists are "typically characterized ... unorthodox methods. They are often motivated by revenge, seeking to settle real ... , so maybe I'm not a mad scientist. But, when people ask me where I am

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  anonymous email, the hospitalization of a friend or cat - these all are very varied and are of different significance to different people, but when things are already really stressful with classes and problem sets and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  are, and where my behavior comes from. On one hand, my mom has always ... 've reached a point where sometimes things are just so fucked up I can't help ... . There are times where I do step back and think I am a little mean. Should

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  of where you are on your spiritual journey, come and pose your hard ... times and have not been able to find them... Where the heck are they ... , because there are about a million events going on every day. I've been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  't! (That's usually how I made notecards in high school). Notecards are meant ... I'm fairly sure all of you are familiar with the fact that MIT has ... it turns out, managing your time is a fairly easy process. Here are

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  as many opportunities as possible. I switched to the "free food" diet, where I would get most of my meals from networking events with free food ... handle. Now, I realize that these are the days when we become the kind of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  what I consider the highlight reel, here are the ten moments that I ... lines of, “The decisions are ready.” My heart skipped a beat, and my mom ... floor of the student center, where I saw Petey. I remember staring at him

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , I was hoping you WERE leaving. Super Shuttle Driver: Where are you ... is on my lap (where a laptop should be, I guess) and my headphones are ... , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  ://web.mit.edu/i3/, where all of the vidoes are located on one convenient webpage ... freshmen can make a more educated choice about where they want to live. Of course, most of the videos are nothing more than 5 minutes of someone with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  Minecraft versions as possible. "There are so many things I'm building where I ... creative MIT students are, it's no surprise that the effort was a massive ... members of the MIT community, from prefrosh to grad students, are helping

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a ... MIT.” “We are?! Why is that?” “Because MIT is having a party and I ... cupcake in my hand (I was lucky to know where to stand to grab an early part

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  are the highlights: You can watch the full press conference at MIT ... normal MIT classroom (it looks a lot like the room where I took 18 ... 's historic World Series win in 2004. In responding, he made reference to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  have a pretty decent idea of where things are. The highlight of the night ... still. Happy! Another thing that made me happy this week was getting an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... introduction of "The Fall of Rome" by W. H. Auden:      The piers are pummelled ... best decisions I've made while at MIT. 3D printers, laser cutters, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014