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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor ... of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP

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

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  , 80% of the time. I'm glad that I made friends at other universities ... At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... limiting and destructive way. I wish I acknowledged at an earlier stage of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  well-balanced sign of the zodiac. They're great at thinking through ... -in programs to explore different universities in new settings, don't cross off ... obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  of money. —Robo-CJ getting a job at a computer company. You get to ... it and you're learning a lot of new things. But it's not like you ... getting an education from the University of Chicago, which is not a school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... into the side of the stringers at the correct height and angle so that

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

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  feel relieved, and also nothing at all. Of course, the last year has been ... film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you're just riffing off of someone else's idea. But I hope you all enjoy it as

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

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to ... glimpse at my jobs spreadsheet. i had shortlisted and applied to most of ... relevant experience for. A lot of people shoot their shot at literally every

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... minutes after class, one of the Pre-Calc kids was at the board, while I sat ... teacher side of things: I go to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6:30. I improvise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  sedentary and cold. My last dragon at MIT was my finals dragon, about two months ago. Because I’m a senior all but one of my finals were ... of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  at the connotation of "creativity" from a new angle (in a sense, be ... system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... the side of Goodale (the northeast corner of East Campus):  

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... offering a new dining plan, in which you are paid money in exchange for ... continuous slow breeze at your back, and it smells of cinnamon and ozone. You

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

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  . Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  from the University of Waterloo, whose academic program alternates four ... trampled in the mass of hundreds of engineers and interns champing at ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ’ve been a better idea to do it at a warmer time of the year, but well… Alan ... : Spoilers for the rest of this post. At Mattapan, we got off of the trolley we ... inbound. I tell Alan that we’ve used up all of our bad luck at this point

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  good at math. My personality consisted of being good at math and enjoying ... enough that I could still think of myself as being good at math, and I ... know dozens of people here at MIT who went to the IMO. I now know dozens

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... part of being alive at this time is that our youth have taken up with so ... A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even ... even at a time of social distancing and fear, humanity is real:  MIT ... immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• 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…

  

  range estimation and entering the second quarter of my time at MIT. I ... media studies (CMS) department sits at the forefront of the field as one ... protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014