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

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in)convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself facing more questions about identity in general in college. This year, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became familiar with. Today is hectic in part because my mind is still racing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... , you're so heads down in your work that you hardly notice dates flying by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... .   In the movie version, they say that Stark graduated "

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The ... yourself”. In the novel, James Gatz created and became Jay Gatsby - the ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... undergradate and current MIT graduate student, wrote in the Tech last month, the ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... may take many forms. What is it that you look for in an applicant?, some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan, you can get SPAM at Mc ... 't half-ass anything on Conner 2, unless it's every problem set I turned in this semester, we totally blew every other senior breakfast in history

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... strangers; stay in touch either in person (come visit us!) or online (please ... I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  senior year in Course 7 (which is awesome! Everyone should study biology!!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my ... accurately in Harvard Square. His lab has already made a paper airplane that ... robot falls down a ramp in a walking motion (no power, no motors, no

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... course, solidifying my decision that double majoring in Biology and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have ... traditions, something that I fell in love with as soon as I arrived on campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase, “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... and State College have both become home, though in very different ways ... made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion ... ...mushiness. Mushiness comes in sentiment form. People like that-friend-you-haven't-spoken

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011