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• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  building 3, on the first floor, room 08. Main campus is considered to be the ... students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you ... the Infinite runs from building 7 through buildings 3, 10, and 4 to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... 't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  building the first rocket to take astronauts to Mars. Some of my classmates ... (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  experiences/fun things and every week first semester I tried to add to it, and I ... , you don’t have to say yes to the first UROP or job offer you get ... top-tier colleges will enter their first semesters having no idea how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  songs off-key when my data cut out. When I came to somewhere new, I’d look ... will give you some ideas. This blog I’m going to talk about what I did ... two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  handed it the keys to a shiny new Australia (a far better place to dump our ... Nowadays we seem to primarily battle problem sets and thesis snakes ... sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  first I have to realize that projects in my research group require the ... possible thing. Prioritizing is key and it’s important to prioritize yourself ... : First, SLEEP. I refuse to disrupt my sleep schedule. I make it a priority

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  has anywhere from 3 to 10 syllables. Among the first hundred haiku it ... someone key me in on a trick to couple hundred haikus per second? i think ... I retrained Robo-CJ to write haiku. This is coincidentally very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  typically considered the key to the golden gates of selective universities are ... ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result ... -worker.       This particular Twitter thread brought to light more context to Nadya

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  memory of visiting MIT for the first time is one I hold dear to my heart. I ... The first time I walked down that hallway, the world was white. Many ... ’—an infinite one, at that. Dramatically, slash if I were into telling fables, I

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• 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?!

  

  chose to instill a sense of mischievousness early on. A key component of ... the big dome of Building 10.” This appears to be the first mention of ... manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life   First ... astrodynamics for the first time. I remember doing a 16.07 lab where we had to ... , BeaverCube first needs to know where its cameras are currently pointing

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  first place. I found spaces and mentors that have helped me to continue ... Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  test in a different mood”, which to me highlights a key flaw in any kind ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  . So the story that follows is about my first visit to the Massachusetts ... first door to the right is a men's bathroom. My friends Steven and Brendan ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  canvas to see that i had gotten a 59 on my first midterm in 8.022. this was ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  source, causing the first source you built to fail. Of course, there ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ’ll help to remember that there are people who love you first. Don’t worry ... quite fitting. I recommend, though, listening to Sorry-Grateful here ... application that I wanted to write blogs that I wish I had read when I was

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the first weeks back from Spring Break, and I just need to get through ... Tuesday, the first sunny day of the week. I want to stop obsessively ... my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  Suite to make ridiculous creations for fun. Here is the first GIF I ever ... ’t yet figured out how to infinitely loop GIFs, so to preserve the ... did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015