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

  

  . Alan: Fortunately, it was zero degrees Celsius, and not zero degrees ... , who was also a floorpi resident, and how he did a speedrun through all ... station, and made notes about where he could’ve saved time. It took him 9

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch of numbers and then demanded to know exactly what their chances of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  their experience and ask for donations to the university. This is meant to ... high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  about colleges and universities. Many of the students I met already knew a ... County, having just spent the week in New York City and Long Island, meeting and talking with a lot of students and guidance counselors about MIT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  universally. Only best and worst for you. So please, please, please please form ... incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  ubiquitous local Dunkin Donuts, the Massachusetts State House, and the ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but ... week!), I discovered new favorite places and once again ascertained that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  . This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and ... regard, and I acknowledge how radical my thinking might seem. Recently, I ... a distinction between submitting an application and trying to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  applications, my UROP, being a news editor for The Tech, and, well, living. The ... surprising number of late nights and amount of last-minute tooling this term ... .614 (Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures), and I knew from the previous

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling ... , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift while you do it to make a square"]rectangle,[/annotation] and then drag to

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

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

  

  sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think ... not true) and I just don’t even really remember what it feels like to be ... (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  , it has to be extremely hot: between one and two thousand degrees ... post about everything I did that day. I recently remembered this and thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  , on Tuesday, the international students and FPOPs will come.[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to Yellowstone and New Hampshire, have fun :D"][/annotation] And on Saturday

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a ... was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it ... for the agonizing six weeks following October 31. And then, I got this

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  where students mostly do things other than school, like externships and ... , and after a few days, I get an interview. A day or two after that, I get placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  living room, sipping homemade sangria that was filled with fresh fruit and was much, much stronger than any of us anticipated, and watched as a ... known much about Elton John, except that he was old, he was gay, and that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  Institute unique, and often define students’ MIT experiences, so prioritize ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some ... their experience with the dorm during REX and CPW. Watch the dorm i3

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and started work/research the next day! Sounds exhilarating and somewhat

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome, white and round like an ancient temple, while a thought crossed his mind ... hours and many questions later, I had reached my last slide and was asked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  She worked so hard and got into all the state schools she applied to ... It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019