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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  that you can drop out now. But you know it’s not true. You can’t leave. They won’t let you. You’re not sure who ‘they’ are, but you know you ... roof of the Stata Center leaks continually, even when it’s not raining

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  always tell yourself that you’re not going to overwork. That you’re going to choose to be happy, choose not to overload yourself with coursework, choose not to hang out with people who are academically intense. But these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  "] CAD model of our fort.[/caption] We started work on the morning of ... our margin of error and chose to proceed with starting work on the ... parallelize multiple groups of prefrosh working at the same time to get those

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  elderly-person advice. (Although I am not as old as a postdoc in my lab who ... class of 2016 myself. After working for two years in Boston, I'm moving ... food that has fallen on the floor; you're not as sneaky as you think you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  floor of building 3 with a graduate student and we were both working ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn ... explaining "Chechnya Is Not the Czech Republic”, next to immigration debate

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  that time, I was preparing to return to MIT, wrapping up my work at ... again—on walks to and from work, at my desk while writing, and lying in ... on the way it has been moving on—continuously, and whether or not I am

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  freshmen who were already good at calculus, the Economics class worked out ... assignment. Back home, depression and mental health is not something people talk openly about. I’m not even sure it’s something that’s talked about

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  was brutally cold, and sightseeing was not desirable. I did, however ... ocean for my second boat ride was even more inspiring. If a boat is not ... Haymarket is a not the most tourist-appropriate location. On Friday and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all ... Residence Exploration period, starting with those you might not have already ... headphones and audio source! 20:17 - 24:17 Random Hallsmeade It's not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in ... , not a single path, and you may or may not have gotten a chance to ... . Math is not memorization—in fact, the human subject of this blog post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  worked. I was reasonably good at everything I did, and great at a few ... extremely clear, '28th best high school violinist in South Dakota' is not a ... smells fishy. I never harbored any suspicions that I might not be straight

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . [caption id="attachment_63747" align="aligncenter" width="194"] this is not ... 're not registered for it. This helps when you're shopping for classes ... place. You get people to work with on homework for free. You have people

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

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... . Twenty feet, not even two buildings, not even one. The friend who I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  of their collection and spotted yoshitomo nara works, along with some ... , not the original, otherwise i wouldn't even want to breathe on it -- but

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges ... ). Sorry, Harvard friends! Please keep cross-regging (not sarcastic

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  counterfactual reality of how I would’ve done, had I not improved my study habits ... just how much OTHER work I’ve punted that is now knocking down my door ... semesters, but not like this. Not being able to do things I care about, with

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  .[annotation note="I wrote some original work, too, and posted it on the Not ... As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... remember now? What made her tick? I curse myself for not bothering to journal

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  like MIT, a school that was not in a predominantly black area, and had a ... because there has never been someone to explain that they were working ... . BSU is constantly working for our best interest, the National Society of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  just remembered, in some sense, what it means to want to write—not just ... . I’ve kept on working on the new book I’ve been thinking of, and I ... from this post, it’s simply this: do not dig open a grave in real life

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

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things worked ... not, you can observe and extrapolate. Watch what people do, and take

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023