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  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  wanted to study in college, and all of a sudden it was all very REAL. I ... put in a lot of time and effort to take college classes or take on ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  a person—and to find out that they are depressed—when I have been ... as opposed to something that I can use to reach a certain goal in life ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  sense of agency in your life will make you happier. It is a lot harder to ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though ... which allow you to be a small, positive influence in other people’s lives

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

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... storm in our dorm. A few weeks later, she came over to a party with her ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  Boston from the inside of a train car, suitcase in hand as I returned to ... University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... ’t necessarily a con–I feel like the gym’s vibes are very conducive to locking in and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  decide whether or not they’d like to live in a fraternity. It’s also a ... , Kenneth had always thought he’d be able to join a D9 organization in college ... system was important for all three of them in their decision to join a D9

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  the longer you live in and contribute to the dorm. Go on a citrusy ... Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... 's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  pop-up windows on his desktop responded to his mouse clicks in a ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... , visited a friend in Milwaukee (and drove to the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh), went to the IEEE Aerospace Conference in Montana (and presented a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... built a freakin' nuclear reactor didn't get in to MIT, what chance do they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... -East-Campus-all-the-time, so this isn't going to really be a post about my own experiences in the ... in this crazy place does. Side note: this also led to a lot of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of ... classroom concepts in a practical environment, you get research experience to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... those will continue to be gatekept by the student body :)) I tried to find ... polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  drawing me back to a cycle of self-blame, taking root in my head and placing ... most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when ... following it. Even in a perfect world where I do conform to the rules of my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  explore MIT. A word to the wise: investing a lot of time in a hobby or interest will often be far more rewarding than trying to juggle a double in ... are where it's at. Also, it's really, really tough to get a C in a HASS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... hometown (where I'd lived my whole life) to go to MIT. I was in such a hurry ... walk up three flights of stairs to find a hallway full of friends, where

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track ... revisions). Date reindexing made it possible to visualize a weekly pattern in ... [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... outlets, because in addition to being a positive human-interest piece it ... As I find myself again, railing against something published in the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011