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  50 Reflections

  

  you guys probably don't care. (Thanks.) Inspired by my own 50 Things, I offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  played Some Nights by fun. over and over on that first independent work ... in the best of ways. “Don't make fun of prefrosh. That was you like 2 ... , shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  experiment and see what works best for you. At least a few times in your ... your major(s), purely for the fun of it. It's important to think about ... for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  in the best light possible for competitive college admissions. So as ... : Online website full of notes, cheat sheets, and practice problems for ... best online tools to thoroughly learn about almost any high school

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  's house and played Guess Who with the extra rule that you couldn't ask about ... ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite ... gave me plenty of great recipes for Apple Bake, Burton-Conner's annual

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  best viewing point for MIThenge. You might ask the same question Marivel ... applications yesterday to experience 5 fun events. First was the famous MIT Charm ... classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  I was ecstatic. An educational video I had made for my IAP class was ... magnificent ceremony for all students (who each created a video), and there’d be free food and interviews. I dubbed the event The Red Carpet Premiere. On

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  These blogs exist for many reasons. Show prospective students what ... for feeling all of those things, or feeling anything else. No matter ... post will be a way for you to start processing all of those thoughts, a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for ... Globe's list of the top 50 "ideas, inventions and innovators that helped ... detection/navigation (perfected at MIT durign WWII) Texas Instruments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... twinstagram lol We're bad at goodbye's so, for realsies now, bye!

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  lie on a certain vertical straight line. This has been checked for the first 1,500,000,000 solutions. A proof that it is true for every ... the book tour for his latest, Busting Vegas, that he wrote with Semyon

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... weather today for the marathon? But it should be done by now though” and ... okay. But I didn’t know that, so I didn’t. I prayed for every single

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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.

  

  "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... online by a previous lecturer, and it was not long after I discovered them ... were optional through an online lecture experiment so that was excusable

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to ... unrelatable. It's certainly no 50 Things, which you should definitely read if

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  play poker (=p). Also, a highlight of the summer was a trip to Caltech ... programs (and since then, the deadlines for the three summer programs that ... /USA Mathcamp!, Colby College, Maine I visited MIT for my very first time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  Random Hall. Software for playing Magic: The Gathering online for free ... . My parents gave me my MacBook Pro as a gift before I left for MIT. It ... computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  deposit.  Figure out how to do an international wire online, but ... for a Junior summer internship that spanned over 50 job applications and ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  student groups doing fun activities. 58% of the admitted Class of 2009 are currently at MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (this post is dedicated to the ... ! The Lab for Chocolate Science did chocolate truffle making! Obviously

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... ’m hosting a party for Boston-area friends.  When I was younger, birthdays ... , I overlook it. There are many days where I spend my minutes like poker

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  red, no rhyme or reason for why my light wasn’t coming on. I’ve almost ... major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day ... these many bridges, and decided that the best way to show that is through

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020