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  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... saving time, right? It made sense, of course, until you tried to account for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  available here (eventually a more-official-looking version will be made ... record of how things are right now, to those at mit who care about making ... contentedness. there are things that happen when you graduate. you get gently

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  /label/digitize everything but that’s less interesting). So, here are some of the coolest ... !), a CPW brochure from 2003 (which made me feel incredibly young because ... iterations of the freshman application (where not too much has changed with the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  jacky is claiming that MIT food is bad therefore people in MIT are sad and ... of this discussion, the expensive “healthy/vegan/paleo” foods are not ... culinary delight. Here at MIT we are makers. Mens et manus they say, mind and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  hours considerably. And I made a dragon sword! First we had some lessons ... are obviously hot, but by cooling black metal that still holds a lot of ... when you make the end of a bar thin and pointy. rivets are like double

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  made my shoulder available for others to cry on. My friends have pulled ... hazing new pledges peldges (aka new members), so much so that peldges are ... from Tetazoo and up five flights of stairs at tEp, where I'll be living

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  undergrad, there is someone who has been where you are at some point in their ... outline of what to expect when we arrived: how to check in, where to go for ... arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where

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

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... there are very different solutions which can’t be compared on the same

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  to whatever it was you were originally doing, but can’t because you are obligated by social norms to stay right where you are. I looked desperately ... fulfilling a promise I had once made to someone I loved. Laptop check. 1 minute

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  to the district for a snack at Bova’s Bakery, where delicacies are ... the park in a glorious architectural mix are an AMC movie theatre, a ... ’s architecture are blurry, as the last time my friends and I went there, the air

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  , and what about that VH1 “Where Are They Now?” special that you’ve all ... is where the heart is and happily chose to switch from mechanical ... older entries now, I realize that it made the experience much richer than

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from that text (quoted in papers I wrote) and some are from an online text, meaning they come from ... : Because I want to do things that are interesting to me. A: Why do things

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  [/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been ... the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to ... 't understand the answer. The TAs seem like geniuses to me. But those TAs are me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  posted this, because it really made me think. It's certainly a fair post ... , where multiple groups of different admissions staff and faculty members will weigh in on it. Assuming you've made it that far, the senior staff

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a ... left me more keenly aware of situations where I may feel trapped and have ... physical wellbeing. So I scrapped all of the memes and jokes I made about my

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

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  complete without the acknowledgment that it is a place where you will most ... probably included. During my own preview weekend, I went to an event where ... , and happily changed the subject—“You should go on a lab tour where I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  Around MIT, where it is instead attributed to Anonymous: This was the subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... is chaotic, onlookers are confused, and people have developed complex

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  applied [annotation note="something many of you are probably going through ... these, it’s hard to see the difference six years has made outside of, well ... , and currently blonde, though it’s growing out. My glasses are bigger, my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  semesters left, and there are at least fifteen or twenty classes that I would ... realized that while these four years don't last very long, they are packed ... got off crutches. I am so, so unspeakably glad that I made it a habit

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift ... delete every cube you made, and then make [annotation note="you could also ... "] voila, a cube[/caption] Now, here's where parametric design comes in. Let

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019