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  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.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got to stay warm and cozy in my (over)heated room while it whistled and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  though they may just live in this universe that you've created, has wants ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  late working multiple nights in a row and it culminated with me dropping ... hardships. But in times like this when we go through hardships, no matter how ... pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three ... Sloan fellows to Singapore University of Technology and Design undergrads ... better video content being produced – and created a final video project in

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  universe, etc.) even though we're thousands of miles apart (she grew up in ... I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... arrive in Harvard Square 10:01am arrive at L.A. Burdick's This particular

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... did nothing but study and mire in awkwardness. And I learned that a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  were in general much more hardk0re. East Campus in its original manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  crawled closer and closer. I had been sitting in my little call station ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that ... ,” he said. I may have actually leaned back in my chair. “What do you

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science ... representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our ... we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... in the song that evoke the same emotions. something you did that failed

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any ... . Printers would only print in black and white. Face paint and makeup would simply be made in only dark, or light. There would only be black and white

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  story. Unless it’s a matter of health and safety – in that case, use your best judgment. It’s okay to say no to things too. Leave space in your ... classmates is a good place to start. Staying in your comfort zone is easy, but

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For MIT students who stay in the Boston area over the summer, there are three main housing options (listed below in order of increasing personal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... think that in some alternate universe, where this program is in person, I ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all ... responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  keep in touch with me, offer informal life advice, etc. When I got the ... helped, but is not necessary) MIT was the most helpful in figuring out ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the

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

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  . it is normally in boston university, but this year we are doing the ... happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair, this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017