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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was ... was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT ... student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... ="depending on how you frame the situation, the General Institute Requirements

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... chances are, if you applied early, you’re freaking out right now. Be it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  year when I got my first B. If it weren't for that B, I would have been ... are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I ... time. When I was younger I always believed I could get into MIT, but it

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus ... may take many forms. What is it that you look for in an applicant?, some ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post-it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to say that this note and the feelings behind it was one of my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this ... was coming in. I knew Cru existed but not much about it, and after

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  here much, but when I did, it was mostly just to admire how aesthetic it ... people who read them. That's where this post differs. It is probably not ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I ... chapter would thrive and grow after we left it (and reign for 1000 years ... -day Dynasty family line. True to my wishes, it’s so big now that we’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... , whether it be Anime, Bharatha Natyam, Christianity, Debate, Entrepreneurship ... about it in your application. And for the rest of you poets, dancers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... weather today for the marathon? But it should be done by now though” and ... ’t believe what I was looking at. It was one of those catatonic moments, when

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of ... . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... unfortunately won't be using Interstellar, but I look forward to using it next

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  some form of a "month-long winter break". And it isn't not a winter break, but it is slightly different. It's the Independent Activity Period. I ... offered financial aid for low-income students in the form of TechCash to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders ... IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ...  - Pokerbots Hordes of students fanatically devote their relaxing, month-long

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  because of what it was and how it was made. It was a paradise statue ... even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS ... living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring ... to enroll at MIT, but I think it also applies to people thinking about applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a Thursday afternoon in New York City. It was also mid-December, so "afternoon ... rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014