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  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  present-day me. I wrote both parts in strokes of inspiration, something that ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  cost of living (though you can purchase a meal plan while living in any ... college, adapt to anything. In fact, I was a bit horrified of my freshman ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of ... . In the span of four months, I had done so many new things and met so ... 14: To be continued... I'll see yall in May/June for the end of this

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  is sometimes only visible in the limits of your imagination. Can you ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in ... motto in the Avengers: Civil War movie :P) Chris and I had a couple more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  . *There are some structural causes of burnout in grad school that I am all ... figured out what I wanted out of a career, based on working in the science ... ’s digest of why I was interested in their program, asking them if they

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

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’s right. I’ve reached out to a number of physics professors (I can't speak ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  in the heart of scientific progress and passion and feeling like I ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month. Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• 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.

  

  I heard over and over again from mouths of all shapes and sizes was ... mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high ... -oh-one-a/b" written in place of numbers. I got a 50% on that one. This past week I had ... and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Reaccs I didn't send that many messages in most of these chats. However, I ... felt about the class. For example, I had a ton of negative reacts in 6 ... At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... MIT. Literally. At the beginning of the semester, when I finally stopped procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  would go. I really guess all I can say to the potential class of 2018 now ... negative things you are thinking about it. In one of my essays to MIT, I ... whatever other sayings you can think of. It was then that I decided to join

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

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  ending. (3) Because in between classes, I might eat lunch in Killian ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... engineering can be colorful: ^from 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... , not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... fencing takes up most of my extracurricular commitment, so I can’t join most of the clubs I was interested in. Plans change, and that’s fine. The

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017