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  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... to wear jeans. Nice things are for the early birds.   The easiest thing ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... even taken to court and threatened with jail time for hacking. More incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... visited Caltech, but I didn't want to pay for or sit through the flight from ... start to discover new layers of your personality and your relationships

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  'll hold the rest for the second edition of The Unofficial Guide to ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  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 ... 's nice to have someone say "don't take for granted that

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

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... semester to acclimate to the pressure-cooker of MIT. For more info, read the ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find a bit of personal direction. the moment i realized it was okay for my ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life ... great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... quotas or targets for any racial or ethnic group, but we can take steps to ... context. We believe it is crucial for the successful future of our world to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I ... underway, we write. We put pen to paper the old fashioned way for 15 minutes ... I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
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  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually decent person the last time i went to urgent care i checked off “excessive ... that was meant for babies “I'm just not feeling this game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... website. 4:15am: For luckily only the second time this term, I didn't have ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  asexual people describe. For example, not really wanting to have sex, aside ... anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for ... visas, even. Pretty much everything was set for us to go. One Sunday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... , in March of 2020, I was the last person to leave my wing of Next House ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight ... your journey. To all of you, thank you for trusting us with your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019