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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... quite the same number of skits, they do encompass many of the same

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was ... connotations of skin tones and cultures rather than the spectrum of visible light ... would be too spicy for the “guest”, me, of my own father or mother

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  my sorority has ended up being one of the one of the best and most ... organization that encompasses the sorority side of Greek life at MIT. Panhel is the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... that seemed perfect at the age of 18, that I actually feel as though my ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... undergrad [Janet] if she had seen Silence of the Lambs, which came out in 1991

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of ... media studies, at just about 50 pages of double-spaced garamond, was the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  our entire family tree. I went home and wanted to write the stories of ... collection of ramblings and loose ends that don’t deserve the term “novel”, don ... ” means. The other three iterations of this draft touched on all those

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really ... that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which ... not too long after a member of our family died of cancer. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work ... a bit of personal direction. the moment i realized it was okay for my ... 'm hoping the rest of my (and your) senior year pans out like that.

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the Aero/Astro department that he's one of the best undergrads to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... submission.** The director gave her the job instantly. *limnology: the study of ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from years ago, I remember the week of[annotation note="Note: it wasn't MIT I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... four study legs, made out of 4x4s, the classic EC loft pillar material. I ... because making the bottoms of the legs perfectly flat requires non

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the ... succeeding, since the positive impact of your successes will eventually far ... of your childhood before you have to buy your own groceries (the rest

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  just the start of receiving these types of decisions; after it come ... often, and it does wonders. It takes us out of the toxic "what if I did ... actually end it! Think of it as the universe guiding you along the messy

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... this earlier in the year, and a grad student friend of mine said ... know people who know people. Friends: remember that the vast majority of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Even though we’re only two weeks into the start of the Spring semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... the end of a semester, condensed into a single week. So, how exactly do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William ... -selecting subset of the total professor population. I would never have expected a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011