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• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  i had a brief check-in with my supervisor. and then i was on discord ... , this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in ... the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  Drills go in forward and reverse. You should mix wall paint before you ... people are often really scary, but important. I kept a list of new ... story. Unless it’s a matter of health and safety – in that case, use your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  chillier than May feels like it should be. I walked a little further this day ... what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get ... yesterday evening, and there is a lively discussion in the chat about what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  . In the end, it was an imperfect fit but a fantastic summer. I'm so glad I took the risk. I was in search of a summer rich in feelings ... ironic. In the move from my dorm to tEp, I had gone from living in a single

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  context when it comes up. What is CMS? I don't have a snappy answer. Like ... ,[/annotation] because I want to think about the Hunt in a context bigger than fifty hours ... puzzlehunt community, and what expectations I have for others, using a gift

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  ... everything. Although I do live with 6 people in what is essentially a ... check my guests in. I can stay for the summer without applying again. I ... ? check.) You're a lot more limited in customizing your space. This one is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  three paragraphs about what I mean, I should give you at least one ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though ... have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... on a team in this way — where we’re all passionate about what we ... .[/annotation] I should add that I’ve taken all of one electronics class during a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double-check ... chainsaw outside? I am not sure what's going on in this class. I'm typing ... ourselves in. I don't know if I should send in my pictures of all the PODS

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  before heading in to work, I'm not even stinkier! Now, I know what you ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... there, after landing, I stayed in Bologna a few days. The second weekend I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... from those communities, I've put together this blog that details a non ... apply to a school like MIT. As Petey wonderfully notes in his infamous

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  course, I did what a lot of us do in the wake of new confidence. I ... do a lot in the water. I was able to move around, fin-less and floater ... end before anything could begin, and I think a lot of that fear hindered

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a ... college, adapt to anything. In fact, I was a bit horrified of my freshman

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember decisions day when i applied early action. i could barely concentrate in class

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  mechanical engineering. I'd never taken a final before winter break or got out ... 'd never built a robot. I had never hung out with Ben Jones in real life or ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  to learn. Lab 1 The next day, I had my 2 and a half hour lab session in ... wrong. I looked up a tutorial online that did something similar to what we ... rendered in HTML. I added a GET request with an input query 'lamp' in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020