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

  

  day than I do—if you’re an athlete on just anyone on a high-calorie diet

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  class called 21G.046: Chinese Modern Fiction and Cinema. One day, we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  (the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar), which

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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  then carefully examining everything excreted during subsequent days

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  after turning on the Admissions Machine the day after applications are due

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  Friday. I had an icky week. I had four exams in four days, one of which

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  best results. To that end, the last day of my swimming class ended with

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  shine. The filament is made out of metal (these days, usually Tungsten

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , and Oniongate was a horrible incident that happened a few days ago. In ... we fight until the day the waters calm enough so we can climb the cliff ... living in a foreign country. You're learning something new every day, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... choice a million times a day, mostly in small ways that escape our notice ... before Pi Day, I was denied by that PhD program. I had reached for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the end of the day, the choices you make in college are yours. The

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

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  the day I think I and a lot of others are much better people for our

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  like I’m wasting my potential every day because I know that what I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  community looks like from the outside. I spent most of my high school days in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  day for late work, so I encourage you to continue implementing this

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These two photos are from Valentine's Day 2013, during my first time on MIT

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  programming language, what do I do next? The answer I give these days is, what ... filling out a form every day, there's probably some way to solve it with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  of the Afternoon Tech Parties Club; Cadet Officer; Member of ‘88 Class-Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014