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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  things are the end of the world. They happen to people, and those people ... returners, “You may get addicted to going on leave.” He explains: the world ... unique capabilities and your place at MIT and in the world. You have your

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... that a world of possibilities did exist out there, and even if Penn hadn ... enclosing me, the world vanishing, for that moment of intimacy to take over, a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  you're here to sing along or just take over the world, come join us as ... pancakes to feed you. 03:17 - 06:17 First, Breakfast. And then World ... quiver in fear and make the whole world tremble with the power of your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  can make the world a better place.    An inspirational image from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  around the world to discover that there are poor people, they are missing

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

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  she ever decided to turn her powers against humanity, the world would

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  eventually and go out into the world. Once we've graduated, we wear the rings

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  not a great deal of fun*)... how's life in your corner of the world

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  chemical engineering that involved saving the world by turning turkeys into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  world domination in integration bees. The successful MIT application

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  the best thing they could do for the world was to earn as much money as ... expectation for myself shouldn’t be to be the best person in the world at ... , working to better math education and do good for the world. In another world

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  't buy is "having a major, measurable impact on the world in some way ... Futures To Prepare For? We've spent a lot of time in the world of theory. In ... world of possibilities. In high school, I attended a talk that was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can ... the world, and the professor can ask a question and no one will answer

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is ... world still dealing with COVID. Either way, it fundamentally boils down to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve ... sadness in the world ok my fourth crush is in the works so i need to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  leaving the gates, the thought of being out in the world for several hours ... and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015