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  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  are relatively well-known—don't anticipate many niche hidden gems since ... someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don't ... 3rd, I didn't see much there). there's a lounge on the second floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  where I thought my life would go, I wasn't even close. I would've guessed ... campus. I didn’t understand this when I started to look at colleges and to ... . Can you tell that I didn’t sleep much? I had already learned Freshman

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  any money off this, I just wanted to see this happen. I didn't want to ... for each card. That means coordinating between 22 people, which wouldn't ... embracing the many different art styles that artists had. That meant I didn't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  to watch. It doesn't go into scramble mode very often, the only other ... Obama's address. Needless to say, the MechE student who doesn't have a ... they cleared it. I didn't beep so I didn't get frisked or wanded, and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  former was a pretty standard gir class experience. i wasn’t as interested ... ’re really into astronomy), but i feel like i didn’t get as much out of it as i ... didn’t feel as much as a desire to get highly involved. ESP ran programs

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  make sure each decision you make feels like your own; you shouldn’t ever ... pressure for you to do so. I don’t mean to say that you should make ... societal expectations, then that is nice and convenient. If it doesn’t, so be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn't ... !"]strenuous[/annotation] exercise isn't just how I stay fit: it's how I stay sane. I've found I need ... couldn't deadlift inside unless I wanted to end up in my landlady's living

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  . The assignment isn't about making something that would exist in reality ... creative exercise (so don't make fun of the stupid science I'm doing here ...  critter accommodate to live within the scrap? Well, my critter doesn't have eyes, so

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm ... Engineering Problem Solving -- essentially Intro to Java) -- and it wasn't even ... -procrastination blues). I must say, I was surprisingly alert. I don't know how much

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written many stubs and snippets over the past few months, but I haven’t been able ... and keep myself occupied through the long summer days. What I didn’t

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... ’ve never met, a person who technically doesn’t exist. Let me explain. When I ... best friends playing a sport that has given me so much. The joy isn’t

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  think this is mostly because the history people study just… doesn't ... insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... catalog was published” and “today” means “today, in 2021”. I won't be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , especially. I don't actually have a plan for this, haha, so I will just draft ... balancing a challenging load of extracurriculars. It won't be your most ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  lengths weren’t perfectly accurate, our angle wasn’t perfectly 90 degrees. A ... and finish them very early on. Marlow T. ‘27, one of the other project ... the stairs design was to ensure we didn’t have to manually cut the side

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  admission, (even though there isn’t one).  This is MIT after all.  We love ... simply sufficient.  Don’t limit yourself by asking what do I need to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a sorority actually meant, so it hadn’t crossed my mind until one of my soccer ... . Don’t be afraid to voice concerns. Ask your PRC or the chapter members

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to ... could be. even though i told myself i didn't really care what the result

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  technical things, to figure out that we just don't. Yes, we still really like ... of studying with peers. Granted, it won't be as solitary of an ... most of whom are undergrads. And we don't want to leave this place

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the ... celebrity units. I'm not always the one asking the question, of course - I don't

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  TV. It wouldn’t matter if you could use your color vision or not ... most definitely many, many red apples I would be unable to see or wouldn’t ... good way--I didn’t often have to deal with discriminatory or questionable

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016