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  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  banquet. For $10 ($8 for members), attendees got to sit at round tables, eat ... slots to fill. Thankfully, as a junior with a CMS concentration, I managed ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... in west campus all have numbers that begin with W, like W20, the ... numbers that begin with E, like E23 Health Services or E62 MIT Sloan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta ... testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It ... ’re familiar with common notions that men are spatial and logical thinkers, while

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  much of it is free!! You can 3D print using white ABS plastic for free ... material isn't free for laser cutting, but there is a bin of partially used ... training. For this, you had to do different modules based on which track you

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  own before working with friends, going for office hours, etc. It ... , especially. I don't actually have a plan for this, haha, so I will just draft things as they come to me. :P I graduated with a 4.7 GPA from MIT, or 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• 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

  

  with the tortilla on the side could last me for a solid two meals. After ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  the future. Preparing for the struggles that are to come with any ... on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... from our friend Paula J. ‘14 when she moved in with friends who already ... guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the first event of the weekend, I went into the wings eating contest with a ... taste other things for the rest of my life going forward... After that I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  , there have been many, many blog posts filled with advice for first ... them are still bubbling with questions about their dorms, all the ... years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about

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

  

  , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10 ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... fourth floor of building 3 for really excellent Indian food. Crack open the

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

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... , for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the wealth ... across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  change for the next test, I was happy with my preparation, I just happened ... I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  random imo” “MIT: High Reach with a 710 Math score. Aim for a 760 ... applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... MIT and Caltech were far too nerdy for me, since the ultra-geek culture

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE ... course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... IAP, I was a teaching assistant for the very first time. Elizabeth

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  also got Facebook accounts for the first time. OK, enough about pre-2007 ... been waiting for? Bryan’s life after the blogs Big secret: I actually ... of a leap as you might imagine). My PhD work combined proteomics with

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... not think that I was a good enough candidate for MIT - my SAT scores ... 't know what it means. But it means you're considered equally with the rest

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  video, made with love (though with poor video editing skills) and I hope ... , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  one wish i would wish for the haiku bot to reincarnate myself with haiku ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020