Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm
GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in)convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn't have your people....
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7 Reasons MIT Is Special
Final year at MIT is done! I don’t miss it… yet. But the realization hits all seniors at different times: seeing friends for maybe the last time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake...
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Doors of East Campus
This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on art in my dorm, East Campus. According to the MIT Mind and Hand Book, MIT allows three undergraduate dorms (Random Hall, East...
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Learning to Spend Better
This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how to not spend their money. I definitely didn't, even when I really, really, needed to. But I did learn to be spending better. Being...
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How to Meet More People
What follows is a thought that I've mulled over recently put into beautiful words by my dear friend Amy F. '20. It's conclusions she's come to (sometimes the hard way) after making it halfway through...
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Axes of Confusion
We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major...
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SUMMER ROSES
In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically slowed down. After running at 75 mph for the past year, I barely walk at 3 now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving...
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Murals of East Campus
(This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard college dorm room can be summed up by this picture. This...
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It's no secret that Course 6-3 (Computer Science) is one of the most, if not the most popular major at MIT. According to the Registrar, there were 757 undergraduate students alone enrolled in Course...
View Article8,726,500 Seconds Of Summer: Self-Discovery Within An Internship
*written by Grace C. '21 as a part of the 8,726,500 Seconds of Summer guest post series* It’s the end of finals. I’m sitting at a plastic table amongst hundreds of other students in the Johnson...
View Articleon wryping styles
it's interesting whenever i blog because i've always been using what i like to call 'standard' which is more or less the grammatical way to compose english, including punctuation. so i always...
View ArticleBe A Blogger (2018)!
It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm taking advantage of running around the Charles River (and all the public water fountains alongside) 2) There are lots of smol nerds running...
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8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc
*written by Sharon L. '21 as a part of the 8,726,500 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Have you ever considered how everyday objects like sneakers and computer monitors are manufactured? As it...
View Article8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan
*written by Liz O. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Home Sweet Home I was not imagining coming home for the summer, back during Fall Career Fair in late September. I...
View ArticleProposed: MITAdmissions Labs
Earlier this year, I blogged about how we are redesigning MITAdmissions.org. We still are, and it's going well. I think we're meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of...
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What We Did In High School
One month ago, we helped out Lauren Avalos (an MIT Admissions Counselor), at our high school's annual college forum, where a bunch of counselors from top tier schools gave a panel discussion about the...
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8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really
*written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Lesson learned--you should always have a backup plan. Or improvise. After end of IAP rolled around, I was one...
View ArticleColin Webb’s Commencement Speech
A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President of the Class of 2018 (and newly-elected member of the MIT...
View Articlea shoebox pc
before i know it, it's halfway through summer: i started my internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before...
View ArticleFig. 7: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich
Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random...
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