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

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good ... UROPs. Don’t be stuck working for a lab you don’t want to work for or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... up to the event. Our group chat was exploding with people asking for ... through. Also, I think it's easy to feel that (for me at least) the

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

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for ... listening to videos. At 7 pm everyone wants dinner, so if I'm looking for ... people I've known for the past 4-6 years. I'm looking forwards to spending

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  blog entry because I have a ton of work to do for my employer (a company ... ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that ... for my day job, I’m trying to combine my experience in biological

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... pre-departure events set up by GECD. Yay for a chance to meet my fellow ... Course 6 and the German department for the German courses to count as HASS

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  will always be there for me, I console myself by looking forward to what ... into, for example, and time to participate in the greater Boston ... their apartments, or coming back for certain events to talk about life

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop ... living [annotation note="for the record, whenever i refer to off ... on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... MIT utterly failed to prepare me for the real world.  I wish there had ... to launch after graduation left me truly bitter about MIT for awhile

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  perfect essay... for a price, of course. (Anywhere from a few bucks for basic proofreading to three figures for a full-blown rewrite - the irony ... ." That's all we're really looking for. To clarify, I'm not

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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.

  

  "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... , not four. It's easy to say that you'll read the lecture notes for the ... requires you to correct for it all at once. I can't go to lecture if I haven

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... annoyance with the local price discrepancy (read: gouging) spurs him to invent

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  ingredient. —anonymous going to Harvard, but for a fraction of the cost. —Robo ... 're going to get rich. —Robo-CJ trading your sanity for a piece of paper that ... , but you'll have to hold your breath for high tide. Every time the waves

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  imperfect, and thus that there's a ton of room for me to have an impact. Most ... .042: Mathematics for Computer Science  (2) 6.08: Introduction to EECS via ... wanted to be an engineer to begin with.  2.00C: Design for Complex

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  building 56 Athena cluster to check email and print readings for classes ... am trying to get Adam to stop studying for his 16.06 test and start ... was looking for criticisms, as the paper is due to be published soon

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is ... giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... to sign up to teach for Splash. [caption id="attachment_49472" align

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate ... to be asked for your resume, so you might as well make one now. That ... definitely wouldn’t hesitate to ask him for suggestions. Again: it helps to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

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

  

  (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes ... applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a ... to chill for a few hours until the call-backs. To distract myself, I

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

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

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... keep up my enthusiasm and drink tons of water to make sure my voice didn't die (my voice likes to die because I rarely talk for long periods of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... he’d already contacted him again to ask him to come aboard for this ... for me and Ayomide because we were supposed to kind of keep this project

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017