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  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of ... Ashmont or Braintree (the two branches at the bottom of the rightmost map ... you’re past the gates go up the stairs on your left.   At the top of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to ... will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... one of the most difficult things I’ve experienced, and at least giving myself a chance at grad school was bizarrely a part of my grieving process

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  at a lot of different styles of cuisine and experiment, you can get the ... , and marvel at your very adult portion of vegetables. [carousel image1 ... In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  had a similar idea, and both of us e-mailed the powers at be (Dave) and ... flags at the top to give them similar angles, and then tape the back of ... conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two

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

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and now the moment of glory is at hand. Do you have what it takes to be ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  .091 helped me discover my interest in course 3! At the end of each class we ... Computation (2) Professor Sipser is one of the best lecturers at MIT! He does ... summary of those results and a full list of the classes submitted! All the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... 2pm. You might be wondering at the moral of this story. Is it grades ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  years of MIT before I actually decided to look at the entire course ... At MIT, we have pre-registration as well as regular registration ... months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT! At the time of the video ... Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... until around the second week of classes, life at MIT was so chill that it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the ... among friends, much less at a table full of strangers. I always ask people ... of the returners at my table are forthcoming about why they left. Some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides ... a small space in a corner of my mind where it slowly eats away at my ... most of my classes to keep me accountable in at least trying to pay

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

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

  

  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 ... unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at

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

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  , something that’s not “legit,” at the conference. I felt ashamed of myself. I ... more. At the beginning of my sophomore year, I decided to join a student ... of rushing off, I have learned to dedicate at least three minutes to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• 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 / 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 ... noticed three of my fellow passengers staring somewhat obviously at my shirt ... of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right

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

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  the two of us and the fact that I'm still looking at the Mc ... possible moment (writing headlines and looking at every other piece of ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , and the system was different. At the beginning of every piece, Mr. L ... volunteer at the beginning of the piece, and heard the applause at the end of ... I find it scary or intimidating. At the beginning of freshman year, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011