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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  less: Western Zodiac: Many of you are familiar with the western zodiac ... description from the zodiac more than the one of the western signs. I think the ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the ... it does work out, it will take years of love and dedication and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... of my junior year, and I am twenty. There are so many stories I want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... question. This place certainly has no shortage of learned

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  advertises 33 majors for the Bachelor of Science degree, including a few ... undergraduate majors MIT offers has nearly doubled since, the essence of the ... qualifications are so excellent that they are clearly acceptable, an offer of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... necessarily go out of my way to pursue in my degree. This would be biomedical ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  but enjoying the rigor of a physics degree and doubling in 21M and 8 ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  rocket is the ship Serenity from Firefly, a space western and one of the ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear ... a rejection. Or perhaps you were accepted and are worried of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to ... One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017