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

  

  ’t understand (and can’t easily clarify for yourself with a quick google search ... campus for a medical reason (this saved me thousands of dollars when I had ... what makes you happy. Find a time and a place every day where you can be

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

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  in for a grad school paper. And he gave me what I am pretty sure was ... of challenge. For a while, I flailed. I would come to class or to the ... I decided I wanted to make a Twitter bot for my final project in CMS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  . I took a bus to Rome, where I would stay for a few days, and then on ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot ... let me shower. I’d heard a crow call in person for the first time. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to the Jersey City loft where I’ll be staying this IAP--I’m spending the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  here? When people from my high school asked where I was going to college ... was far away from my parents. For some reason, though, I think that ... connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  for one of my early blogs: I was a freshman then, and you can totally ... free food from every dorm and living group I could traverse, a nontrivial ... .m., I retired to the basement of Walker Memorial, where a bunch of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more ... the day to day? Did she cry over a silly things that I can’t even ... for a STEM camp. I wanted a way to keep in touch with these people that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... : WHY am I not good enough for them? [annotation note="Nothing like a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double ... everyone is still for too long for it to be a natural pause. I watch as a ... not ever fixing it!!!! so I've been buying soap this whole time for the

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

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  being in a position of good fortune. five. for the past few days, i ... can take a break, do something i enjoy now, and figure it out later ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  been a whirlwind and there are moments where I feel like I haven't truly ... school for my prickly personality among other things and I was struggling a ... semester at MIT. I was in a house where I had sour relationships with my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  write this out explicitly, though, because this is a place where I fall ... pressure for you to do so. I don’t mean to say that you should make ... paragraph on why. Why follow this advice? I have two reasons: first, having a

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

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks ... leave - I was ready to fly far away from Asia and be part of a new great ... two majors, along with a slew of classes in between that I took for fun

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... deaths (the needles) from a haystack of celestial phenomena; I convened ... , creative collaborators from all across the world.  For my work, I got to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor ... Happy 10th birthday, blogs!!! I made you a cake! (With help from ... a hard one for me – from MIT Marching Band to my service fraternity

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don ... :( charging spots near desks is far from where I live so I stay there is ... year that I made a playlist for when I study there...yes, I'm serious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  walked away from that mirror, and took a shower. When I came out (ha ha ... part, the one where MIT actually plays a really large role - that I hope ... eventually accept myself. And all I can ever hope for is that the content I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018