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

  

  , 80% of the time. I'm glad that I made friends at other universities

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

  The end of a chapter

  

  year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  . Unlike most other universities, it's rare for students to move off campus

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... my offer of admission. It's been too long ago that I know I'm inventing ... choosing between job offers. Yet every semester feels like rolling fresh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  current state of the field.     Figure 1: Schematic

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  , for instance, that chocolate has six crystalline states and that heating

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  are also from lots of different states and ethnic backgrounds. Once, the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  receive an essay that states, "...and that's why Harvard is my dream school

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of them are still bubbling with questions about their dorms, all the

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

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  rain to shoot even when I had nothing to offer but my company, and for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  other word. “Benjamin-behalf-the-Committee-is-pleasure-offer…….” Mom, it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  back to Macgregor from the library? MITPD was always there to offer me a

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office

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

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  Universe Inside the MRI Scanner: An In-Bore Virtual Reality Game for Children

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  surrounded by people who excel in every corner of the universe, and no longer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  whether the Higgs boson exists or not, or the universe has an open or closed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  has developed for itself a spirit and a culture that no university can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011