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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  At the CPW Women’s Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table asked me what I wish I’d known before I came to MIT. I wish I’d known from…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most disappointing or the spookiest Halloween…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: “Can I please list ‘can raise each eyebrow independently’ in the ‘skills’ section of my resume, so it doesn’t look so empty?” Other Freshman: “I made my first resume…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That’s insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which feels an odd mix…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  medical school in Fall '12 were asked to answer a series of questions to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  Every time I check my email (incredibly, only once every few days) I am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines the…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene for its ‘hackathons’. What exactly is a hackathon? “At Facebook, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  I’m chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into my seat and begrudgingly turn…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  author Timur Sahin '11 and reflects his experiences living at MIT's Senior

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  to sleep at 3 and wake up at 11. My lunch and dinner times vary, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and copious amounts of…

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  finishing at 11am. Then I pushed through the day and my other assignments

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  treatment of cells 10:45–Induce necrosis with KCN 11:00–During the 5 hour

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  my talented friend Ben '11's camera, of which you can see more (and by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  . I made the long trek from Random to my advisor's office in 14N in the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of Nowhere, New Mexico – out on a Navajo Reservation. Did I mention that I don’t get…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  previously conditioned to when the sun set at 7 and I went to bed at 11. Only

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018