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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  . Thanks again to Lydia for helping me get that online before I was an actual ... -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all ... for construction in 1923, and opened to students for the first time in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  possible persons he wanted to be.   Wikimedia image(s) of Janus, the ... to advocate for his alma mater, but he didn't. Instead, he told me that ... , wanted to finish my thesis about Facebook more than I wanted to work for

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

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

  

  the country was trying to buy used gym equipment for their basements ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for

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

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... , you choose to live with a[annotation note="One person who lives on Putz ... had to ask a friend with tools to do this for me. Thank you Shophaus

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  population because: 1) I've never learned to code* at MIT (requirement for all ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... contrast to the person that I was projecting on the outside: active in the ... ’t talk to anyone for years, they would mostly forget, and move on with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  hair for braids at a beauty supply store, try to buy it at home or ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  ’t offer it. I’m lucky my family is financially stable enough for me to ... tried to avoid being the 1,000th person who said they would want to travel ... to a highly technical school like MIT, yet for some reason they gave my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  see me with studs for eyes, I am singing the song which gives birth to ... back into the corporeal world disoriented, only for me to hand you a ... depths for hours, but it refuses to go away. Kim D. ‘18 The MIT Media Lab

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  last week. I still had a four- to six-page research paper for 4 ... -day Thanksgiving weekend doing a problem set for 1.00 (Intro to Computers and ... work for 21F.701 (Spanish I), even though that really amounted to maybe

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... (GIRs) are one exception to this. personally, I think there is still ... pressure for you to do so. I don’t mean to say that you should make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it ... colleges way before senior fall. For a lot of juniors, applying to jobs

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... we admit that kid? What happened to that other person? Did he make it ... face, let my eyes wake up, and still tired, headed off to work for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  world that's constructed to help you become yourself for four(ish) years ... in person or online. When we first sent out the email inviting alums ... godsend for those who might want to get a sense of what life was like at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... other way around for life sciences PhD programs). I applied to mostly bio

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some ... Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by ... ’d never stayed up for more than twenty four hours, not to my recollection

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  website, for example) outside of reading season to reserve our cognitive ... have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again, unable to pick, unable to think about picking, for about ten minutes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  Mondays. Then, I walk two buildings over and I go to office hours for ... with the student and prepared to leave for 806, I could hear her saying ... took until November for us to start hanging out after class. By the time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  mother, brother and I would go to the local grocery store to buy things ... post. Additional thanks to my mother for more Chinese-language editing ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016