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

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... that doesn't inspire you. You can contribute to the world as a woman in ... with optimism. Nostalgia can be deceptive, so remember to live in the

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

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

  

  evening. I was placed in Baker 5. I went down the hall and asked where ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I

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

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

  

  ? Where can you get cheap textbooks*? Your classmates and upperclassmen in ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Square, where our next run begins. CJ: I remember we were sitting in a ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , standing in the limelight, I look over at my teammates and can't help but ... rest of the essay? do I really need it?" Can you post your essay? In ... I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  other form of transportation. The route to MIT from where I live in the ... bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my ... praying that seniority would work in my advantage helped. I also desperately

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  concentration of college students. There are more colleges than I can count in the ... : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... big cities alike. As you can probably tell by the fact that I’m writing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  point where you can’t empathize with the difficulties they face, and I ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... -nighters in studio. Linguistics major? Other research areas excited me more. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had ... Southern Hemisphere, I read Mihir Desai’s op-ed in the Harvard Crimson, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... 'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  together can easily meet up. In order to be more accommodating, the chapter ... togetherness and connection. This is important in times where people might not be ... can’t have an idea of where you’re going. Going through traditions and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  in the sand about what would break me, where I'd decide enough is too ... 's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... . Maybe I’ll write about my application some other day so we can like ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

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

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

  

  strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... 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

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , carefully revising every sentence so that I can communicate it in whatever ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... excitement and bubbliness, there's insecurity in comments like "I…have NO idea ... as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The

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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... being gay in contrast any more. I can’t define myself as being gay in ... . Sure, I can tell you his favorite video game, or what student groups he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  where you live and hunt you down. Eek. Okay. I flew through the book in ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011