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

  

  . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... ~"]prefrosh[/annotation] are moving in! It started on Friday, when the athletes arrived. Today ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... the whale is one of my favorite characters. Here is its short part in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a ... , if at all. I was lucky if I knew half the words in the title. Sophomore

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  in my head...forming the words, stringing them together like jewels on ... wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short ... , a bed spontaneously appeared in the student lounge off of the Infinite

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam ... , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm ... different people, toward a different goal, in a different place, and at a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... test in a different mood”, which to me highlights a key flaw in any kind ... to “better manage” people in workplaces or worse, while hiring people

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  remind me that I'm at the hardest school in the country, the fact that I ... you passed. What I've noticed, both from the comments in the admissions ... got a C in physics/chemistry/biology/math Parents will label these as

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... firehose. In reference to this came the adjective hosed, meaning bogged down in work. Incidentally, hosed has been in use since at least 1996, based

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FRIEND FROM MINNESOTA: where in minnesota are you from FRIEND FROM ... sing ME: music * * * FROSH: so what do you major in ME: aerospace ... ME: let me take you to shallow goodale ME: the best salon in boston

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... published in Popular Science and friends who build something amazing and ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... you should do this week in 3 easy steps (results not guaranteed, though ... your own essays, you’ll just fill in the gaps of information that someone

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  keeping me from getting too excited about ceremonies in general. After four ... to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some ... blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... ; the Disposable Razor Wind tunnels (invented at MIT in 1896) Radar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... After sending the email I got curious about the URL in the recipient's

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... videos in a playlist below. Here's a masterlist of all the vlogs, with little descriptions (in case you want to pick and choose which videos to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... think: all the advice in the world couldn't persuade stubborn me to take ... freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too ... "] ah yes, a normal day in lecture with a normal set of... people sitting

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024