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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  examination at MIT, and I didn't feel a sense of relief. Just moments after the ... " questions that used to be at the end of your math textbook in every section ... impress your guests at cocktail parties with the precise names of all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

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

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  ’t edit the doc at all) into the log (with a value of zero for the number of ... days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how ... of my weekly schedule instantly popped out at me: Weekdays 7

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... with the same people. Moving at a [annotation note='For those of you who ... of committee and various checks and balances. At the end of the process

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

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time with headphones on, staring at the computer screen. Perpetual state of ... could handle a light load, so I could at least get a couple of my GIRs out

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  , aeronautical, and nuclear engineering, all of which were pioneered at MIT ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... twinstagram lol We're bad at goodbye's so, for realsies now, bye!

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT ...  think it is something you can without a doubt overcome, and at the end of

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

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... her about her experience teaching at MIT (and overall career/life, of ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  I'm interviewing at five of the top seven programs in biology -- and ... project -- some of my friends at other schools have had "research positions ... Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

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

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

  

  common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at ... years I’ve been at MIT, I haven’t become any less of an introvert, with ... , the guaranteed hard times at MIT mean that the depth of friendships will

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  tip: don’t get sick while at MIT. So when my friend Roxana '09 suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at ... activities for the past two weeks have been working during the day, working at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  times to several people separately, but at the end of the day it just ... school down the road at Hahvahd. That kind of thing happens a lot, too ... ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me ... of course say, “we are Americans”. But when I looked around at my ... ’t believe I was really Chinese, always looking only at the color of my skin

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

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... option and an afternoon option. Since only 32 classes at MIT out of over ... class into your already busy schedule. I have had the fortune of taking at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  number of artistically talented people at MIT. Maybe you're a quarterback ... with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both ... ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006