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

  

  feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me ... having a home on campus would be important. But it took me over a semester

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on Friday(!), giving an address on clean energy. As prestigious as MIT is, and ... ). The announcement was on Tuesday, with MIT only finding out about the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... Canyon Road on Christmas Eve, with the farolitos and the music and everyone ... , tapping his mother on the head, everyone always giving kisses on the cheek

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  who look like you. Those on my side of the counter may mistake this ... carefully choose those stories that had shaped me and immortalize them on my ... snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  submitted my Fall 2019 pre-registration on May 1 because I knew exactly what ... two of the classes that I originally submitted are still on the list. I ... time I actually register, but the classes I've added are 20

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

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all ... very [annotation note="First years are already on campus for orientation ... partners in crime for the week. I was on the orange PRC team, and it was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  pee his pants impressed that I'd climbed so high on the life ladder. I ... about and working on my essay. And reworking it. Over and over again. The ... applications and perhaps working on their essays this very moment, and perhaps

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  popular that I once came ten minutes late for and had to sit on the floor ... happened to be standing right there, going on about amide formation. And then ... minutes into his lecturing, so everyone in my recitation was well aware of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands ... return on your investment. That's great. But money can't just buy integrity

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like ... on ESP history, since ESP is a decades-old organization, and make sure

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  're pretty recognizable on-campus. I also added the Wiesner Building (MIT Media ... cliffs on campus, but this frosh is standing on top of the Great Dome. (don ... on Instagram. The magician; blowing a witch’s ball out of glass. Using

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right hand side of the post (or inline, on mobile; note that the desktop ... because of the cumulative benefits of diversity on the student body — and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  ? Dumbledore: Hmm...well, actually, hang on. *pulls out old tattered book from ... stood slack-jawed with my new book as it dawned on me where I had seen the ... Shakespeare. I picked the envelope off the ground, and re-read the name on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  anything."]advisor[/annotation]—recommended me to be a featured student on ... when I first got on campus. People here were always used to being the top ... enough score on the FEE 3.091 24.00 as a listener, but I stopped going

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... of the night. Malingap is someone organizing a grocery run based on an ... itself up like clay on my shoulders. Maybe that’s why frosh energy is such

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  project in Ethiopia. When back on campus, I continued to be involved in many ... working on the Pi Day video. And while I was doing these things, I really ... immediately. I would go home in the middle of the day because I was on the verge

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

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the ... stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I have PHIL 179, Race and Social Justice. I traverse the Yard on Mondays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... " to come here. I'd like to take that back, because of what happened on ... didn't go well at all. On Thursday night, after my last exam was over, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009