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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

  

  , driving and biking in the city can suck and be dangerous. Though it seems ... . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... people are often really scary, but important. I kept a list of new

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

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  to present-day commentary of what i can remember)—metaphorical pages in ... dawn of the decade, I was still in middle school. Halfway through my ... advice in the comments, telling me that I’d grow out of it and that they

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can't buy pomegranate juice ... knowledge of knots is not for naught. I can knot understand how anyone could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  the thing I'm designing on my screen can actually be manufactured in ... a little part of it hooks and wedges itself in. You know… I may ... ? Maybe we can use PWM. I learned that in [annotation note="Dynamics and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area ... behalf of MIT. I’ve driven through deserts, onto ferries, in downpours

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at ... other form of transportation. The route to MIT from where I live in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... taking in the scenery. I actually found this trail through one of our

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot ... looked beautiful. A typical day of this: I’d wake up in the back of my ... could feel the map of the place taking shape in my mind. I was obsessed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  independence. I was now in control of my own schedule, to form my own community ... , though, I didn't have 3 psets due in two days, 100 pages of reading to ... . Instead, I can be happy and content and find meaning and value even in

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

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  part of this trembling, nervous reflex. Why? I was in the middle of ... 't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... . Out of the sky dropped a summer position. Back in 2011, I had UROP ... Chicago, and visited family in Baltimore. I did a lot of hiking, from Joshua

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... felt the satisfaction I felt when clearing out a section of a map in a ... of time crossing this bridge in my life, mostly on the train. I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  it fit right in the bottom of my suitcase, and has handles, so I don ... clusters, but you can't use that to Facebo- I mean, take notes, in class. I ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  can quickly become distracting, and the feeling of curling up in ... I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... than the amount of money we had in our bank account (and I wasn't eating ... I __really__ needed a single instead of a double in the dorms

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

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... many upperclassmen, in it. In one of the off-topic chat channels, I ... -raising to help you out in a time of need. I'm endlessly grateful to them for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... to go to Norway, depicted in one of the photos above; in the photo, I ... unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... MISTI kids are trying out a lot of the restaurants in the city and ... places in the Bible. I feel like a master of the train system in the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  -affiliated individuals.  During her senior year of high school, AudreyRose, who lives in ... Side of Fraternities because I would not have described it any better ... having a lot of Greek on campus, but in recent years it has gotten smaller

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014