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• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  ! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments ... 't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get into MIT. That's the main statistic you need to be concerned with. Yeah

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  , which is always sad. So here it is, my attempt at some sort of summary of ... England winter. I feel sorry for my friends at MIT, I'm sure my complaining about winter is going to be much more vociferous this year. fluency in a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  Bluebikes bikeshare program, which MIT affiliates can get a discounted ... /full when you need to borrow/return a bike respectively. MIT also has an ... lifetimes, but a few laps around the parking lot tell me that this bad boi is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  is the first biology class I’m taking at MIT! I promised myself I would ... A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please forgive me! If it makes it any better, this is a very long and fairly

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT’s ... like “2 is smaller than 3” or “2 is smaller than 4”. What if your 2

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  projectionist for the club. After all, I reasoned, college is a time to try out ... brief guide to 35 mm film projection for LSC! What is 35 mm film? Two ... [/caption] For some reason, time is represented in two different ways in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  celebrate two roommates’ birthdays! Tatte is closer to MIT than I realized ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/3EGKKO6m7WI5iA1Z7eHb40?si=6c3b4351813f4ae0 Monday My general plan is ... lab, a 25-minute walk down Mass Ave. Usually the day is clear, or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  . One of MIT's masochist-friendly policies is that upperclassmen are free ... marathon? Nobody, that's Who. *At MIT, the first week of school is reserved ... .] [Professor Nergis, whose last name is gentle to neither pronunciation nor

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our ... decided, officially, whether you want to attend MIT or not. If you choose to ... system described. This is when you choose your initial dorms. That's right

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  lot I learned from that call, and that's what I like—MIT is always ... two weeks: I got a UROP! I attended a mixer organized by the MIT ... the bio undergrad mailing list is so nice, you get a lot of cool

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  " align="alignright" width="300"] this is the bike lane! It is very wide ... infrastructure here is actually fantastic. The bike lanes are demarcated separately ... return is so lovely.   The pros of biking: exercise! I went to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  undergrad at MIT, I got a book in the mail from an author I nicknamed ... while I was at MIT, that it had been his first book, and that at the time ... before my move, I was told that “nobody [is ever ready for a faculty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ="REX stands for Residence Exploration, which is a 5-ish-days period where the new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different ... thing is that I was so careful this ENTIRE summer to not get injured, but

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  , sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit ... . Getting into MIT. I will never forget when I refreshed the page, and the ... Confidential is real, and he’s bald!” Now he is my boss and will be reading this

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  . Do not apply to MIT because your life goal is to go to MIT. Apply ... , and MIT is on a path to it. Not the only path. Not even the definitive ... the outcome (this one coming from an expert, here). If MIT is a relevant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , MIT is still honored with my presence. Also, schlepping through the ... Jing '10 is staying at MIT until after Christmas and has been providing ... . Take the mental hyperactivity characteristic of MIT kids, infuse it with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  manager is in charge of dorm maintanence.) He told us the fridge was working ... student RA, basically, for those of you unfamiliar with the term) is a really active member of MITOC- the MIT Outing Club, which owns a cabin in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... is "I make friends with the people in APO, the Assassins' Guild, the UA

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  The first day of classes is tomorrow. [annotation note='like, of ... Madelyn Grant All I wanna do is fly Why should I stick around? With my feet on the ground All I wanna do is fly away 'Cause I'm trying to find the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... [annotation note="this is a JOKE y'all, pls sleep - felix"]Stay up late and ... is solid - kellen"]secret passage somewhere[/annotation]

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021