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  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and ... the person’s life, social class, occupation, clothing, and environment ... whites and browns of my bedding and furniture.   [caption id

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . Recently, I’ve had one of my friends be my accountability buddy and that ... someone who was not known for being nice because I was a nice person and I'd ... plays a huge role in this. I’ve been going through the med school

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  , unofficial learning environment, but the instant grades get written down it ... that problem set c) I failed that test (and it doesn't bother me) d) I ... online, took notes, and did fine in the class (I even aced my second test

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... the product of intense cognition, I thought I'd share some of my views ... - accounts of immigrants fighting for their right to care in a shockingly

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  amusement park.']decoy theme,[/annotation] I'd argue that the 1999 Hunt is the ... comic books art?" or "are puzzlehunts art?" I'd call Mystery Hunt, as it is today, a work of art. But I'm not sure I'd call the 1981, single

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  .nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id ... . [caption id="attachment_86576" align="alignright" width="380"] This wafer ... involves testing fifteen different designs to see which is the most efficient

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  .   [caption id="attachment_56708" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Chartered on ... his father’s and grandfather’s association with Kappa played a factor ... who she really was, and always supported her.  [caption id

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  1967. [caption id="attachment_56001" align="aligncenter" width="600 ... lots and lots of cool art. [caption id="attachment_55838" align ... lots and lots of classes. [caption id="attachment_55842" align

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  experiences/fun things and every week first semester I tried to add to it, and I’d ... where the work environment is toxic. Upperclassmen know things but we ... activities is still doing too many activities. It takes trial and error to find

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  were made from scratch - not with frozen dough! [caption id ... . [caption id="attachment_41726" align="aligncenter" width="2876"] a mountain ... finished off at the Bad Ideas Ball held on Sunday night. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test ... an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... environment of similar minds. The more I read, the clearer this became. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  registered for the SAT Subject Tests. I could barely wait the three months to ... played the “will they-won’t they” game in my mind. I posted like crazy on ... finally convinced myself that I’d been indulging in wishful thinking by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

   click here to watch it in its natural environment. In particular, there are two ... I think that makes the advice I’d give myself from 5 years ago very ... have had vast opportunities to learn. It is a great environment. It is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  , others take a few weeks of incremental progress. I forgot to account for ... bad, it's just life. This is also something I forgot to account for when ... . Even when you think you've accounted for the buffer time, you haven

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a ... to fix it. Here’s a list of things that I thought I’d done in the fall ... supposed “average” course load, but which introduced a level of rigor that I’d

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I ... key while doing practice tests. Yes, a poor performance can sometimes ... test scores to prove it. 4. Get off campus at least once a week. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  sensation in my . . . my . . . well, I suppose I’d better start finding names ... . Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia, Tubul, Great T ... , painted by Audrey H. ‘11. I haven’t played Halo. Cory tells me that the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of ... something “trivial”. instead, i had to develop the study habits i’d been ... comic artists storyboard. [caption id="attachment_110930" align

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  come play with Zuck's puppy. No, that is not a euphemism. oh my god you ... discover at 5AM that my development sandbox had ingloriously broken. Crushed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... and was feeling pretty down. I was so confident I’d get rejected, I didn ... didn't, she'd still get hugs and I'd feel better. I was absolutely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018