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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  before I left the US, I LEARNED how to make bubble tea, out of frustration ... - how else do you get to the airport? lol. I'm too poor to take a taxi ... Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  think it's often overlooked how easy it is to graduate high school without ... explain to you how much it was not. I could tell you that I enjoyed my ... knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know how valuable it can be to learn to write and express yourself ... already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I ... lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  begin to understand just how many things there are to learn. 4) Do ... what to keep personal, and how you want to curate your online presence is ... the starry night sky will remind you how to breathe. Go on walks without

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  .                                                        (Shanghai's Suzhou River) I asked my mother how to say “Sorry, I’m American ... them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  he doesn't know how to handle his emotions. A.M. ‘18 (early action ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  response to “how” is that it was facilitated by parents and their connections ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  see how dedicated their children are to their problem sets) as Lauren ... walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• 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

  

  Learn how to get lost. Make a semi-regular hobby of wandering around ... level, how to solder, code, and use basic tools. At some point you’ll be ... things you care about. Apart from that…well, you’re here to learn. How you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  when you have more work than you know how to handle – yet. When that ... Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School ... stay up the nights before tests, stressing about not knowing how to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  was when I thought about how much I complained to my friends about how much I hated myself, versus how much my friends complained to me about ... suicidal when she has never felt that way? How was it possible for anyone to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor to take the time to write to a colleague to tell him how much an ... letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT ... clear. Also, comics are fun to play around with, even though I have very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how ... Levels by Class During school hours, my editing activity related to how I ... learned how painful it is to be sleep deprived for weeks on end; how sad it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I ... like competition isn’t a part of MIT, but it’s different to how it was

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

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  control how prepared you are to take advantage of them when the opportunity ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that animates the sketch. When the Roadrunner points out to Wile E Coyote that he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• 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. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... communities around you full of people ready to support you, and you will have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021