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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  into East Campus, were initially assigned to H306, and got reassigned to ... from owner to owner, like the couches, the round table, some of the posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  fail, because really, isn’t that the point?, to I have time, to I ... similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the ... learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale

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

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  stars, not constellations. Wheeler collects these fragments but fails to ... will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  myself) initially felt the need to portray their most accomplished and ... most equally down-to-earth and inspiring people I have met during my time at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on

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

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  four colors worked well together. When I initially mentioned this to Alan ... ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  the end. I was never a bad student, but initially more the type to go ... did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... you apply to college, but that filtered projection of an imperfect

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  growth. I am happy to tackle those challenges head-on. Luana: Initially ... students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The ... follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  effects that were initially found for black test-takers were also found to ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his ... . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... the idea at first. When you come to MIT, you will often find your people

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , dreamy tone people usually use to describe things like “winning the lottery ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... cat, I ran quickly to the office and seconds later, was tearing off DHL

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

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I want to switch into 8.02, that’s gotta happen today. This blog was not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  having failed at every prior attempt at learning to code in my life, no ... try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... strangers, to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where we, and thousands more of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  mit. i also found the freedom to fail or do average or say [annotation ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  scholar. I'm going to put [annotation note='CMS is Comparative Media Studies ... what? Gift economies To buy a Hunt Conclusion Open questions ... hundreds of teams, with sizes anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  the recipes. After my initial shopping, I went to my local grocery store ... think I hadn't? I feel like after I knew what it was, I started to see it ... so… I don’t even know what to say. If you’re reading this, you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• 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.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... .424, information theory. The other seminar topics we get to choose from are real ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012