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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  online, and I assure any aspiring scholars of MITese that you will find ... name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class ... and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  if extracting my physical energy as a tax for my sin. the entire month ... with machine learning. i am also a counselor for promys. it’s a math summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the project leads for East Campus Build. Every year, [annotation note ... only have one measuring reel long enough, so for future years we’ll buy ... inside of them for the posts to sit on. [caption id="attachment_104146

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

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  -mail was not going to be answered. I did a quick search online, found the ... one, you can get one. One night, you're getting ready for bed when you ... to be asked for your resume, so you might as well make one now. That

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

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my MIT career, I dropped a course. There were a variety of reasons for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  . Splash, for example, happens for one weekend every November, and it's aimed ... anything. Just check the course catalog for Splash 2019, with classes like ... one-weekend program in March, but it's for middle schoolers instead

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  his final paper for STS.050 (The History of MIT), about the founding of ... administrators saw that the introduction of dormitories would allow for the undergraduate population to share their ideas and passions more quickly and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  the lecture were always posted online. There, honestly, was no need for ... I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  buttcrack of dawn early and is a time slot loathed by almost everybody. Lucky ... at the classes I have to take for my major (Mech E, course 2). Every single course 2 class starts at either 9:00 or 9:30 for all four years of

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited ... . Meet your high school friends over break. Oh, and brace yourself for an ... museums at the time of the night when few tourists were out and the city got

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I ... appreciation for people like Brian Greene and Oliver Sacks, who are great

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once, stumbling onto Anna’s post, “Being Qualified for MIT”, but only with distant

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  City, a whole round centered on doing tasks. For example, the traditional ... tasks we had to do for New York City included making the Monopoly board ... the wrapup slides for the Puzzle Club part. After a quick review and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  grinding and studying for classes, you'll have a lot of free time to figure ... there’s no group chat for your class, feel free to just make one yourself ... . Once you get this library card, you can ride the M2 for free! The M2 is a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students ... liked the drawing I'd made while waiting for him and seemed really ... online submission date was November 1. Shortly before then, something

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  . Thanks again to Lydia for helping me get that online before I was an actual ... York City. I always manage to overheat when I travel, so I'm only wearing ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that ... large part, enabled the blogs to become the epicenter of the online

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ... conservation of energy you can’t go full circle. We get to watch preparations for

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

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than-you-were-looking-for ... again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018