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  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  , built on the idea that you shouldn't try to know, or at least shouldn ... dimension of motion is controlled but are horribly inefficient, to ... turn them into a genius, or, geniuses are admitted to MIT. A subset of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  you. Different places suit different people (which is true not only of ... most popular floors in Burton-Conner floor rush (which is similar to dorm ... Family Guy, which is a pun on the fact that Burton-Conner has suites rather

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• 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 ... . Consider whether you want to live on a floor (e.g. Random or Maseeh) or in a ... of mine moved farther to get a better school-life separation, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  existing cities or making better fuses or writing books or getting ahead of ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... working. Here is our kitchen, which is probably not the kitchen you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... the underseasoning of the fish sticks, or is it a function of the ... because half of zero is zero, which is the amount of time that the student

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  . He threatened to kick me out of home if I insisted on being an atheist ... possessing me. The most basic level of empathy we can give to someone is to ... better. I don't want to invalidate the experiences of people who've found

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

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  evolutionary biological analysis on why my method of preparing steak is the ... bite sized pieces. Beat 1 egg (or 2, if you plan on adding lots of ... [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Regardless of whether or not you go to MIT, you have a long, uphill battle ... school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever ... self-esteem drops to unprecedented lows. I applied early action, and on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own ... example of this. My motivation on the project was pure: I need to make this ... popular page on my site is titlegen, which I liked working on even less. 3

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... to my professor is that I have always taken physics somewhat ahead of ... of arbitrary, because the math is difficult and not intuitive to me. So

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows ... it is.) More than just being around here though, he has served on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... felt really awesome and really, really badass, which is possibly related

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I ... point is: I was doing many, many things. A lot of these are particular to

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for ... , past the bottle of hand sanitizer and signs indicating which doors to ... dome of the 200-inch Hale telescope, which is (as I learned from First

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  got one of those climbing grip training boards, which is kinda fun, and ... sometimes your workout or run is punctuated by the click and conversation of ... ’s so easy to just sit on my phone or get distracted; being around others

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  person, which is much better complex than a simple sum of achievements. Don ... applicant, decisions day is either here or has passed, depending on when you ... post to remind you that success is something you pull out of yourself

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... Pythagorean Theorem is difficult when you have no idea how to square, or take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011