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

  

  out the door. I jump on the 1 bus and get off at MIT, get coffee, and ... been before (1-390) which is surprising, as for the last two years all my ... , and by the time I finished I will have been an undergraduate researcher

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... ’m bored”), or why it is you’re interested in a particular area of research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... a responsibility or a relationship. The word commit is from Latin

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  hours, so I generally try to go either between 10AM-1PM or from 10-11PM ... are, so the Z's facilities are by far the most used. [carousel image1 ... ']East Campus[/annotation] and grad housing.   [carousel image1

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  craze of mixing butter in with my coffee. Until starbucks or dunkin will ... magnetic strip swipes and pin pad punches led to this array of stuff. Or ... quite long or comfortable enough to bust out the laptop and get some work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  the next haiku I will make we have now reached the end of our haiku ... three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve ... , and events will keep happening through the end of April. I hosted an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or ... humanities field is CMS, or Comparative Media Studies (which is a really broad ... offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  during lunch, or after school…the ones who inspire you, the ones who will ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... sensitive. Make a face when a student gives a wrong answer, and he or she may

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  enough for. We might describe the weather with pumapatak, or dripping ... , not August or September. The rain I've experience back at home is quite different from the rain here. Back at home, if it does rain, it will rain for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike ... the underseasoning of the fish sticks, or is it a function of the ... , it appears that either I am spacelike separated from my cell phone or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  actually did research freshman year to determine what drink I was willing to ... some juicy pset hints. 12:56-1:00 -- I meet with anthropology professor ... to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... . Additionally, no matter where you live or what your major is, MIT students can ... It doesn’t matter who your great-grandfather was or what year you are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  will take place on main campus. There’s east campus on the east, which ... Student Center, or W16 Kresge Auditorium. Buildings in east campus have numbers that begin with E, like E23 Health Services or E62 MIT Sloan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  technical school. Day 1: Sketches from the Independent Activities Period I ... stories or letters to applicants (though it is always great to practice a ... pages long, 1.15-spaced. Part 1, written shortly after freshman fall, was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... , or Pitch Perfect. Sometimes we’ll binge on romantic comedies, and other ... ’ll do some data mining and see if I can find updated numbers. Now, anyone

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  words, such as Things #1, #35, and #50, have gotten me through hard times ... the idea at first. When you come to MIT, you will often find your people ... number of years. Still, you will always remember your upperclassmen mentors

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  possible opportunity, fun, or success. Ever. Good news: none of these will ... mayor throwing a confetti parade outside your door. Or maybe you ... limbo for an eternity before inevitably executed. Or you’re not accepted

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  to, because we know the reality that less than 1 out of every 10 will ... .g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
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  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  lounge or something, which was still better than sleeping in the Logan. I ... ? He’s intent with saying that U will be a better fit for me. In my mind ... prestige or rank were never really factors; I just wanted to get to know all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020