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  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special ... expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  you from achieving anything you want to. I can’t give you the “key” to ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ) resource: I made an appointment with them to go over my first draft, and ... : "I made my first resume when I was six; I knew eight different programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn't even ... me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking across the Harvard Bridge and bang, we felt a snowflake (the first

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  lanyard holds the key to my soon-to-be home, even if it lacks keys to any of ... four staples later I was in a taxi (my first!) on my way back to the ... Standard Time). The first few games were strictly by-the-rules, but due to a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  ?t=5756 -- When I got to the airport for my first ever flight, I ... freshman spring was the first time I ever came to campus, and the adults who ... arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  happened to be broken the first time I took the test (so we had to use one on ... school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as ... -you-were-looking-for-but-here-it-is-anyway take. Table o’ Contents
 The most important thing is to figure out

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  the keys to my first ever apartment and an MIT-issued iPad that stored ... would somehow tie back to this quote, as we learned more and more about ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Sophomore Standing (ESS) to qualifying first-year students. ESS allowed ... departmental advisor, and to register for more units than the first-year credit ... changes above to first-year academic policies via a vote. But that didn

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... people to come talk to us about their majors. We spoke with fifteen MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... tips to figure out where you’ll fit best: Ask multiple residents about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , so I learned Shanghainese from being with her). When I first went to ... them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the ... . The Gala was the first Infinite event of this scale, featuring an art ... students. Not only was the event helpful for introducing people to Infinite

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  -styled notification at the end of the Infinite, I challenged myself to find as many ... , over time, become entirely irrelevant to what you first intended to ... right from the get-go, but after walking down MIT's Infinite Corridor, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... respective first choice schools early decision. "I have a really good feeling ... exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• 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 any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs ... 'm sorry it took me so long to get a first post out; I was waiting until

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  interested in me, and made all the first moves and invited me to hang out with ... the first place would want to continue talking to you or hanging out ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -friends muscle, which you'll need to strengthen and rely on throughout your first ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to ... student IDs, looking around with their parents, hauling boxes up to their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019