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  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  -so-exciting lives of your friends offline or online, and that only amplifies when all ... online rankings of “Top 100 Schools in the World” nor debates about Harvard ... student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  takes the form of socializing, writing, and incessant online window ... ’re just kids. our jokes are a mix of violence and bathroom humor and we ... making stone-cold mistakes about all of them. we’re still growing up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  . Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia, Tubul, Great T ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• 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.

  

  walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and ... chemistry is probably one of my favorite subjects - drawing those little arrow

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... MIT, I've been the treasurer of Chinese Students Club, President of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... next morning. Yes, this is totally awesome. It reminds me of MIT. It also makes a lot of sense because it's far easier to code something interesting

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do here. My dad follows the blogs very closely as well and the two of us ... I normally won't is explore the bowels of College Confidential (if I

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  find the description (or even the entire course) online. So, instead of ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  series about online gamers. The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: I haven't read ... . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  the freshman seminar(s) of your choice through an online lottery over ... (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  accounted for already and it’ll better maintain its tension over the course of ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of ... account was actually a terrible idea. I don’t know if I can think of any ... My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  real life; I spent most of my time online, where I could pretend ... -November. I barely said anything to my online friends. Then the eeriness of my ... of depression and extremely brief mentions of suicide and self

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e.g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the ... my laptop! And most of it won’t be affected by my grade! I smirked at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  online video. Elizabeth and I share a lot of the same values when it comes ... to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make ... of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015