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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug through boxes of cereal and bunches of fruit until I found something that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  where to apply Tips on the application components Why I chose MIT ... your opportunities, wherever you are. I’m not a grad admissions expert. This is purely from my POV as a recent grad school applicant. (I left

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel ... unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling twelve hours and spanning a full calendar day. I was more than 9

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

    In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I ... , Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015, so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  It's been over two weeks since I last blogged, and I've been working on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... discarding and reweaving them until they sparkle and sound just the way I want

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog post about everything I did that day. I recently remembered this and ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... : "I made my first resume when I was six; I knew eight different ... far as I can tell, UROPing follows a basic rule of thumb: if you want

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , research etc) ?? I am an international applicant, and I will definitly be majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... "diverse" or "confused about goals"?   In the past week, I have read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... optional ... dorm? ME: ... FROSH: seems kinda dirty too ME: ... FROSH: i mean the roller coaster's pretty cool FROSH: but i would never live

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last file I read. Yes, she had a sub-1400 SAT score, but you should have seen the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... competitive soccer career. When I was in seventh grade, [annotation note

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read ... heartfelt. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany of sorts. I finally experienced, in true form, what the term "bleary-eyed" really means. Mind you, I was

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  .S. Armed Forces). I am fortunate enough to know all of our current transfer ... our transfer community with the blogs, I asked [annotation note ... cohort[/annotation]to reflect on their experience. I’m sharing the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  Not long ago, I met with an admitted MIT student, whom I will call ... wanted me to help him decide. Over the last few weeks I've met, emailed ... . The most apparently inconsequential choice — like whether or not I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  Every time I check my email (incredibly, only once every few days) I am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines ... comparative urban studies study abroad program. When the semester began, I came

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the morning and slept at midnight and yet I felt like I didn't do anything. Time is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I ... papers I wrote) and some are from an online text, meaning they come from different translations"]back in Cambridge,[/annotation] I still remember from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021