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  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  brought MIT's varied schools together to identify and support innovative

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  Warning: cheesiness ahead! Halfway through this chaotic semester filled with too many midterms for me and too many college applications for many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  since leaving school—but I love, love, love all these quirks and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  this is all over, in the same bed I slept in when I started high school

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  School of Management. Frank Lee, co-founder at Bevi. MBA at MIT Sloan

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A – “Exceptionally good performance…” B –…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  my time in school, and he told me about his efforts to get his friends

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  It’s Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are swooping down on campus with brightly-colored t-shirts, cheap plastic goodies, and oddly-formatted emails.  I’ve been reading a lot of…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of last semester’s trials…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  Holy Beaver! You’ve received your letter from Hogwarts MIT and you can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport.…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  Imagine: you arrive on campus. It’s awesome. Breathtaking. Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in friendly company? The math gangster you dreamed to become? Now’s your…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  dark. With that in mind, along with the fact that many other schools had

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  Hello Interwebz! Our campus is swarming with high school students and free food. It's all very exciting. Everyone is very excited! Ahhh! I'm excited too! In fact, this is also my first CPW ever. I did not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  the old-school electrical folks. Lastly, the Manufacturing lead comes

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  the world in other ways. Kristine is in med school now, so if humankind

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  craziness season begins for you poor juniors in high school (subject tests and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  , some of my old journals (if I could tell my high-school self one thing

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  rural area of Somalia, the first in his family to attend school, just as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  once in Albuquerque the summer after I graduated from high school (I lost

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  This school year was pretty terrible.  I don't think there is an easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called Sophomore Slump. My second semester was a little better.  I took classes that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014