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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  Orientation is some ice breakers and a 90-minute safety presentation. But this is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra ... Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty ... the Internet (even typing that number is terribly guilt-inducing, BUT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  biodiesel." “At MIT, ChemE, Course 10, is known as the most difficult major ... , MIT is the best at that, right?” “Well, I learned a ton, that’s for sure.” “I think MIT is the best at everything.” “It’s a fantastic place, it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  MIT. I can't tell you whether it is worth it. Not while knowing that I ... , it is most definitely going to be hard to leave MIT. But I definitely ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  –-and you absolutely should! Getting into MIT is indeed an accomplishment ... ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In ... 've had with people from the MIT community, nearly everyone has the same

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  is really like, I wrote a 250 word essay. Not on MIT's prompts, though ... a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... short-answer system that MIT adopted. A few months ago, I created a bogus

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  and others this may be an unsatisfying explanation. MIT is a community ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of ... world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT ... parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with ... immigrants. “Ten years ago, they beat MIT,” reads a headline on AZ Central

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  to MIT, more or less equidistant from Central, Harvard, and Inman ... season. One of my biggest lessons of 2015 (and 2014 and 2013 and 2012) is ... Middle Earth or Discworld or National City. Tonight is Old New Year’s Eve

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... MIT at all. Fencing room: This is self-explanatory. I spent MANY hours ... people who read them. That's where this post differs. It is probably not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  be AWESOME. What I expect to happen is that MIT will invent time travel ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... made of glass this term. I'm leaving MIT! It's totally sad. I just walk

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel ... . Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear ... 't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT Facilities, the people who keep MIT running. In 2014, Walter Isaacson ... is to replace something so large, in both time and money. If I had to

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

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  to the blogs, so I don't feel bad. Life away from MIT is great; the ... projects with some of the most unlikely people. It's not MIT, but it is great ... , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  Soccer season is officially over. Holy smokes does time fly. It feels ... bid to the D3 NCAA tournament, which is the national tournament. We ... -0. We ended our season with a record of 21-2-1, and we tied MIT soccer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  my priority, and I'm much happier now. MIT is confusing in many more ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on my mistakes, but if high school taught me anything, it is that these

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  , either you're accepted or you're not. There is no grey area... so they ... same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006