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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Pandora has queued up for us, sipping homemade sweet tea and tossing ideas ... , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... , but we grew up in Denver, where there was no one like us. This wasn ... actually, there weren’t people like us in the whole world (as far as we knew

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS) (US) Also versions available for ... difficult for those who may not even realize the immense potential of ... subjects.  So for a while now, many discussions have been going on within a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was still emailing us ... ,[/annotation] but it was telling us two key things: 1. we can get free art from mit for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... ground for challenging other aspects of myself beyond my name - hobbies

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  tensions between China and the US and Taiwan, who knows for how long borders ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... -year-old Elizabeth were both gunning for the same job, he said he ... put up with me, and it would be an even bigger miracle for a full

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  Discord instead of the office. When the time came for us, a few weeks after ... available to just ask for advice, to just talk to, and to remind us of things ... easier for us to troubleshoot. There's Jeffery L. '23, who corresponded

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  wall, the bullets took long enough to break through for us to recuperate ... family of MIT to be famous for how we treat people: famous for sympathy ... are tentatively up to for the next five years, what they are excited for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  and advocate for students. We might be crusty, but I’d say we are warm ... world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... process for me. In addition, as a slightly extroverted person, reading

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... , for "Technology Broadcasting System," when it was discovered that a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  previously with some practice problems they posted for us.   [caption id ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... ="107410" /] Storytime: So one of the TAs for 18.02A has a crazy response time. Like you

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautifully describes IHTFP at MIT. I hope this post touches you like it did for ... later, I woke up at 3 pm after sleeping for 14 hours. With my eyes wide open, I lay on my bed—a strange feeling emerged. I didn't care for work

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  to sit around and wait for someone to write it for us. We are more than ... senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  list, asking us to apply for the[annotation note="Residence EXploration ... we provide a comfortable space for people to engage with us and with ... list. The email asks for applications for the Next House[annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  also a good core principle for life. Most of us want people in our lives ... New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... am not discouraging them from applying for admission, but rather making

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students ... liked the drawing I'd made while waiting for him and seemed really ... correctly, nothing was actually lost. But for the trouble, we were granted a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... student by Alex M. '21 throughlines by Paolo A. '21 I’m Still Here (for ... world that's constructed to help you become yourself for four(ish) years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  donations from alums allowed us to all get robes for free. I played as Neville ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023