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

  

  might be MIT. The time might be the middle of the semester. We’re from the ... Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the ... good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs ... likelihood of acceptance. I'm sure the AdmissionSplash people are only trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a copy of the international edition of Newsweek, which had a headline

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the ... field of Computational Geometry) are both wonderful lecturers and the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... consume contained the highest concentration of caffeine. Mountain Dew won

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a ... side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... an admissions guru (lolz) when I was still in college, I offer the same

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  left (or somewhere nearby) is a map of the MBTA subway system. You ... on until the very last stop, South Station, which is when most of the ... each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  -Madison’s offer of acceptance. *** And that’s the bulk of it. That’s why I took a ... For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past ... analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  , the fun and stupid anecdotes of road tripping up the west coast, working ... now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan. It also means that we have the highest per-capita average of fire

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to ... elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... looks about as appetizing as the last photo of an Anna's burrito I posted ... good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  internships, and of the 20+ gigs I applied to, I got one offer, six rejections ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... Hopkins and Brown and Dartmouth rejected her, and she was offered the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019