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

  

  FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some ... ’re absolutely certain where you want to live, it’s helpful to discover different

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

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ’t have any well-defined goals going into it (which, honestly, is how lots ... about how it’d go; despite all of the work we put into testing (probably ... , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  experiences applying to jobs, and does not necessarily reflect every MIT student ... 's four years of job applications. However, it is generally understood that ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  entry on the interview and how to prepare for it. If you haven't yet set ... a bit this week was how possible is it to balance the tough academic ... County, having just spent the week in New York City and Long Island

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  socialize. Catching up. How are you doing? What’s it like there? And a lot of ... ’s already left, that feeling of powerlessness about the whole thing. But it’s ... ’t cried about it. And it’s odd, because I came into this whole mess getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  enough at the language, and it would take too long. I simply had to tell ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was ... forget about it the next day. When I was 12 years old I didn’t write while

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  corridor. it's actually not that long but everyone usually goes through it to ... Happy [annotation note="so if you think about it i'm technically ... "]6.1210[/annotation] lecture, it seemed like some people were a little

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  . ']MIT admitted its first woman: Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ... watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it ... lives of female faculty here']The history of women at MIT is long and rich

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ...and then commented on how late it was to be sending him an email. So after ... with others. And despite how challenging it all felt, I'm just really ... Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language ... it's one of MIT's most interesting - and yet also most understated

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  think about how it would have been to be a woman at MIT when only 5% of ... from Google Earth to help with comparing to how it looks today ... video (or 1.25 hours if you watch it all on 2x speed). I'd say it's a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  on, so I'm not sure how reliable of a spot it is anymore. last year, it ... since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll probably have to share during the day when it's busy Ida Green Room (9th

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

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two ... . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes ... . Sometimes on mahogany walls. It’s not diverse, but still a bit impressive

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... throw things out the window because we think it’s funny, and we’re still ... and then put back together again”, it’s never about a school. it’s about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  into the same square. In 1844, Gerling furthermore showed that it does ... irrational—it cannot be an integer. Bricard’s condition does not hold for these ... -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  that I’ve been at this for a long time, long enough for it to come around ... is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also ... on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  exhausting, doesn’t it? Now it has been more than two weeks since I left England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... Hello guys! Sorry for the super duper long hiatus :( After my final

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  do it if I tried, but I’m just not trying hard enough. When I think about how much energy I have to do “work”, or “productive things”, I have this pet theory. It’s not perfect, and I don’t really know how well it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  :30 Nerdy Singalong It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much ... learn about how we designed it. 18:47 - 20:47 My Course is Better than ... upperclassmen talk about how not to explode at MIT and Random. It's going to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013