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

  

  asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known ... wish I'd thought of every class block as a precious commodity. I have two ... have ASE'd out of 18.02 (I definitely could have) and used my 8.01 credit

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  ; In law school Technical staff at Los Alamos (MIT PhD) Technical staff at Los Alamos (MIT PhD) Management consultant at McKinsey (MIT MEng) Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London PhD

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned ... mechanical engineering. I'd never taken a final before winter break or got out ... . I'd never called anywhere other than the California bay area home. I'd

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one.   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual ... of a D9 organization. He grew up surrounded by [annotation note

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college ... suddenly the unknown. So if I had a time machine, I’d tell myself that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
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  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  proceeded to write little messages all over the beach... D) Mark Zuckerberg ... after we made these posters (you'd be surpised how handy a stack of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  few months since I started blogging. I thought I'd record how it ... water. And maybe you’d feel the same way. And then we could tell each ... it feels like I’m hovering over the water. And maybe you’d feel the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... down. I’d watched a number of [annotation note="pretty much what it ... Walmart parking lot. I’d gone running on a hiking trail and found a gym that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  a few hours. There'd never be really really light rain; there'd always ... mist, where the whole day there'd be this moisture in the air, not quite ... wasn't a typhoon or anything, there'd be a guarantee that it'd pass. This

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  awesome responses I got. Jenny R. ‘15 Eli [D. ‘15] and I painted our door ... a class D stereo amplifier with feedback control. This project was ... have a spare amplifier to use with my speakers. The class D amplification

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
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  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  of the Course 7 (biology) department at MIT (he’s also an alum! Ph.D ... alum, Ph.D ’02… he’s like a boy-wonder of biology. Except he’s an adult.). In honor of his departure from our 7.03 class, I figured I’d dedicate a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  pi reunion this summer. (Yay!) I'm currently a third-year PhD student ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... a PhD candidate in biological and biomedical sciences at Harvard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and listen to people in this school, I'd eat and hang out with people in this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are ... and I calculated what it'd take to build a raft to ride our couch down ... , I was burned out, and with good reason: I'd had three years without a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I’d

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  and was feeling pretty down. I was so confident I’d get rejected, I didn ... had ever experienced much non-classroom math, so we thought we’d go for ... reasons similar to M.B. ‘17’s ice cream: if I got in, she'd get hugs. If I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  of great stories HelmetHub has given me: that one macgyver'd (if ... investors who were my heroes because they'd done incredible things – one of ... with way more than I thought I'd be able to. Several times I drew lines

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

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  's how I was in high school. I procrastinated like you wouldn't believe, I'd ... away at it every night. I'd write essays in marathon non-stop sessions starting with my thesis and not pausing until I'd filled 8 pages with my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  liked the drawing I'd made while waiting for him and seemed really ... pee his pants impressed that I'd climbed so high on the life ladder. I ... where I am now. :D) Living in the graffiti-adorned projects of the Lower

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008