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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... 't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... , terminating both his life and my dreams of graduating (as well as my reputation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two ... , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... as brilliant as some of the professors are, we still get super excited

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  . This gave a degree of accuracy to 1mL, or 1g. I would be able to get ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... are obviously hot, but by cooling black metal that still holds a lot of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  , has sung onstage with one of MIT’s student acapella groups called the ... portraits of dogs? Did you know that she loves folk music, her family and friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Continuing my tradition of posting appropriate blog posts five months ... .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way ... out of the way. Pick an intro subject in a major you're interested in

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

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there ... thesis first ;) so I'll just provide a brief update of what I've been up to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  technological changes, I hope to continue being a part of them! (those enough ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  the feeling of awe at the university — but also trying to figure out ... fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  advertises 33 majors for the Bachelor of Science degree, including a few ... Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... describes attaching her sense of worth to academic performance, listening to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  chance of getting admitted, that these top-tier universities were way out ... convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my ... ’t very anxious about applying because I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I

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

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I ... Allan has a similar motivational advice post (some of our thoughts even

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... everything I say with a grain of salt. However, whether you agree with what I

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018