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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  worried, stock up on frozen meals from Trader Joe’s for easy dining (you ... people from nearby dorms have reported getting too comfortable waking up 5

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

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  ), because from then on, something grew in my stomach and tied it up in ... . Up until that very last night, I kept countdowns going, I kept playing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... pop-up windows on his desktop responded to his mouse clicks in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . Once you’ve stayed up with someone till 7am, multiple times, just talking ... . Yes, take naps! But make sure you can wake up from them. That becomes more of a struggle as you move up class years. Old age dawns quickly in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  running water (such as a river or spring). You can clean up the site (often ... , emptying or drying up every 5-10 years. Currently, all but one of the spring ... , and so he set up a couple meetings, inviting me to them. We heard about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to size up your competitors. As long as you steer carefully, Pass ... . --- That said, I dug up some classics of my MIT academic career that I want ... up my room, I found my very first 18.02 pset! It was so neat and nicely

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  about "pedestrian?" Often, their essays end up turning into a convoluted ... ..." "Someone that I looked up to is...because..." Be engaging, be active. Paint ... . Share with them what you really loved in high school, your ups and your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... up in one week — whether to go to graduate school, or whether to accept ... graduate school, I have no idea if I’ll come up with good research ideas, let

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  ten years, but I’ve finally decided who I want to be when I grow up and ... , so I refused to specialize. I didn’t want to give up on any of my ... /ignoring up to that point. finally letting myself feel it freed me to make

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , through a variety of poor decisions, ended up taking all of them on grades ... all my assignments, finished all my tests, and ended up doing well in ... might be interested in and ended up with a six-page document. Each set of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  pull up read receipts from conversations. Like this one: It’s funny to ... of leaving high school and growing up and maturing. Whether I’d have ... decision, I think) — but that summer I ended up in Boston anyways

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ? It’s kind of like that. Loneliness is that hollow when it moves up into ... future, but in many ways you make up mine. That probably didn’t make sense.  Maybe, this is a better way to explain it: I am still trying to live up to

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  imprisoned himself in building 4 to study for physics, I holed myself up in our ... a class so I ended up doing the same thing for all the other classes I ... brainwashed by "big chem" into believing the whole thing isn't made up. 3

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  up machine, a cable station, various leg and arm machines, and a good ... : The gym is set up with free weights, a weight machine, a treadmill, and ... caught up with problem sets or projects or something, I found myself

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  evaluations; I personally prefer to look subject evaluations up through Firehose ... -ish lecture classes, you can show up to the first day of class even if you ... Ask yourself: when is your earliest class? Do you think you can wake up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  carnage. He would eventually grow up to be a harbinger of peace and ... the show and pick from that list. I ended up with the thirteen episodes ... , Toph, and even Momo.    Appa’s Lost Days: This one is just straight-up

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  upwards slope, and I can see the experiences I’ve racked up, the projects ... imposter, not in the way that plagues so many students here. Chalk it up to ... letter, and I’d rather be up front and self-inflict the blow before you do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• 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 ... stellar explosions, staying up night after night to collect data before the ... tasks, and up to you on what timescale you will do these tasks, and how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  largely homogenous suburban neighborhood where I grew up to a playground for incredibly excited people who are always up for doing something cool, whether ... , microaggressions, gentrification. Nothing is made up--just like the color blue has

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  : finishing up my last year of MIT, stuck in a windowless fluid mechanics ... it. I only sleep standing up.” Hagrid grinned; his eye held a twinkle ... up each day. Unplanned, indefinite, opening books to read a random page

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015