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  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  and incredibly vague. A good fit is a place where you feel completely natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones costarring in it! I’ve been working all week…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  tell you their interests, or their hobbies, or where they’re from, or what classes their taking, or where they live, or who their friends are ... did so-and-so things. Not as someone who made decisions and had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Admissions people, my classmates are a ridiculously talented bunch with the most diverse interests. There are the pre-meds and the hackers, the ... . Additionally, no matter where you live or what your major is, MIT students can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  , admission is free for MIT students -- so when we found out that they held wedding receptions, there wasn't much of a discussion about where we would ... the company where he works were two of the designers. Adam got really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  similar reason. If you come from a high school where a lot of students are ... a Thing I think it’s somewhat silly to contend that there are ... most MIT hopefuls are either. I started getting serious about studying

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  them are still bubbling with questions about their dorms, all the ... years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... the end of the day, the choices you make in college are yours. The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... . II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT - consider the following exchange: HIM: "So what course are you?" YOU: "Uh

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on ... other sites. Here are some excerpts from the article, written by staff ... likelihood of acceptance. I'm sure the AdmissionSplash people are only trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  , there are also places where collaboration has been fruitful, and people ... simply be made in only dark, or light. There would only be black and white ... discrimination issues are talked about and interacted with. It also literally

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  character traits made it difficult for me not to negate. It's easy, and comforting, to shut things down into the nice, clear plan you've made for ... began working at MIT, my then-girlfriend was a student intern at a free

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I ... are sections of the textbook you don’t understand, that you skim over ... the river. There are museums, concert halls, famous historical monuments

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  impactful decisions I’ve made regarding my MIT experience.  Whether you are interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to

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

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

  

  /learning programs where students can teach students or gain internships that are not ... posts about jobs I could find are both from 2008, and general inflation ... my ~6 months here and all benefits/cons are mostly from talking to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... ? Are you serious?”. After the initial explanation, the questioning turned ... , however, the electrical outlets looked different. The suits are slimmer cut

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  made an excellent blog post about it at the time. (I, personally, was ... . ‘20 (yes that’s his real name) who had submitted a video reel he’d made ... , in use 90% of its available time. So, it made perfect sense to make

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

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  ? That which could go, inevitably went, because there are only so many hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... of my friends never met each other. This made it more difficult to plan

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  ). Sidequest 3: Collect 60 free t-shirts. I have a bare minimum of 10 free t ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... live in, what clubs I wanted to join. Some things are going according to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Tumblr where people made daily blog posts, in case you're curious about the ... Out Loud is how fellow blogger Anastassia B. '16 made her awesome video ... , outreach, and production. We also have a blog, where I'll be writing about my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015