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

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... doesn't have maintenance staff. You get to feel a part of a different ... of the year. No one can force me to get a dining plan. I don't have to

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

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  their intake process to get an initial appointment. i had my meeting with ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  onto the Mattapan High-Speed Trolley, which gets credit for going to ... Braintree, we get out of the train, realize that the same train was going to ... , because I used to easily get motion sickness from them. For the rest of our

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get out of bed to get ready (bathroom, brushing teeth, etc.). Making it out ... . 10.25 am: I gather up my stuff and walk back to my room to get dressed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  full class). You get graded according to MIT policies and receive credit ... , interesting. I get to stand in people jams in stairwells and shudder at the ... . Forever. I get to stride proudly down the well-polished hallways with my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  extra-long. And as far as comforters go, try to get something that'll be ... won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get ... guaranteed to be safe. Moreover, if you get a MacBook Pro, you can have all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know ... ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about ... . Later, my team chooses to meet at 5 every day to get more app stuff out of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  conference tournament champion.  To get our hands on that trophy, we had to ... I’m not working out to get stronger and faster on the soccer field ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here ... . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to ... difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... class readings, I managed to get through Michelle Obama’s Becoming

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• 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 ... why I was choosing to take certain classes, and I was starting to get ... campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of

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

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  motivation that propelled me to succeed academically was to get out of Alabama ... , even as strangers. We finally get to have an interaction that is free ... . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program ... , it also involved a fantastic team. I was lucky enough to get the ... months to even get acclimated to a company like that, so I don’t see myself

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... read about you, care about you, and get to know you - almost as if I ... getting to read every story, learn about every person, and feel as though I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you could interact with normally; you had to remain socially distanced from ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  how it occurred later on this week.) It's hard to get time to yourself ... to get to know everyone who falls out of bed and into 10-250. The ... class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007