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  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  'm passing 18.03..") Another point to how we're the best floor ever - we ... 's eloquent correction as to how to properly depict their dish: "And although ... floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1

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

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  motivation to excel in high school and slowly figuring out an answer to “how ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

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

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  time zones. We spend a lot of time thinking about how to best approach ... of quarantine, the frosh feel the same way, right? How can we hope to ... remains to be seen about how our subcommunities will actually function in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  tightly-knit my floor culture is and how wonderful it felt to be a part of ... has a lot of memorabilia that we needed to figure out how to store/allocate space for. Maintaining the BC community — We discussed how to help

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  -English guide are inspired by How To Get Around MIT, the student-produced handbook to the Institute. Often called HowToGAMIT for short, the handbook is ... of 2012, you can and should get your copy of How To Get Around MIT this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  trying to understand what the question was even asking! No matter how much MIT has humbled us and no matter how much we've come to terms with Not ... We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  myself to the MIT community? Self-deprecatingly, that's how.  Before I ... negate how excited I was to graduate.     After graduation I ... overqualifcations. “Today we’re teaching the MIT grad how to file the scheduling

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... opened the package later, it turned out to be two Amazon Echoes. Nothing

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  Facilities stared at it in awe, not quite sure what to think. How, erm, how ... doesn't really like it when students break the law. How to become a hacker ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  especially like how the book reflects some of my own feelings back to me ... last post actually, but to recap: Professor Russ Tedrake’s goal is to ... by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  around the idea of learning without structure, but i'm excited to see how ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  -enough markets, and for the prospect of figuring out how to solve these without ... insights on how to go forth and study a range of different subjects. Plus ... Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Friday, November 4th 11:59pm. WIN! (Also known as, do you know how to ... apply to. “M.I.T.,” I replied. “Oh, M.I.T.?” she mused. “How ironic ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other ... to think ahead about how each of the games would work and how prizes ... strategies to approach playing the game, and how we thought about the results

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020