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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life ... leave. I can't wait to go back and visit as a grad, and reminisce on all

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... to get into MIT" it's not a question I or anyone else can answer ... 'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  words maximum) Alessandra Every summer I receive a visit from a person I ... —Ifemelu’s only here for a few more days (246 more pages). Ameer One word. Dance. I ... come from a family of dancers, so I suppose it’s a bit of a hereditary

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  community for everyone! K: If you're thinking about going to MIT (which I ... last well into the morning. Don't let a little drowsiness stop you from ... here. N: I can't tell you how many parents were on dorm tours and at

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... like I got a taste of the power of academia. Nowhere else can you be ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... built my home; what I need is a snapshot of yours. As I find my way from ... somehow I can’t identify the memory I pulled the song from). Most of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  older, he understood where this instant camaraderie came from--a shared ... members from different schools can all live without having to travel for ... A few weeks ago, I called three friends, AudreyRose ‘21, Nikayah ‘19

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I ... far as I can tell, UROPing follows a basic rule of thumb: if you want ... comes. The MIT career office is a great, under-used (from what I hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... for Concourse, ESG is a really great program. You can also sign up for ... 't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I have to make, and for a night, it'd feel like I can stay at MIT ... for Carl Joshua, because I have two first names, because a lot of ... . We could stream video games for hours on a voice call. We can take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ... What do I get for winning? Uh, literally nothing. A sense of pride and ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... people but i do not remember this meeting at all. cpw is such a blur -p

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... can! Which is a damn good thing, because I'm still hoping to recover from mistakes I was making for all of last year…), but it's so much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... hair for braids at a beauty supply store, try to buy it at home or ... dope from time to time. If you are a black student coming to MIT, I just

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I ... 8:30pm. 7:51pm: The office gets a call from our chairman – Joe '12

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  can make the world a better place.    An inspirational image from ... ’ve already given your all, for almost two decades, to get where you are now. I ... manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  with two of the most supportive parents a girl can ask for, and I ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... that out of the way, I'm writing this entry for a few reasons. One

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a ... puzzlehunt community, and what expectations I have for others, using a gift ... step out of the Hunt for a few hours. And it felt so bad that I put in

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

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... love, I think is a very important goal, and something that can’t be done ... there’s no way a few people can do it alone.“   “I’m here because I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... always been a family affair for me, and I longed to eat with other people ... that took a lot of emotional energy. I was forced to: Recover from the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021