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• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  captioning every image... this takes a shockingly long time, would not recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  and THIS IS THE UNIVERSE TELLING ME NOT TO BE A PHYSICIST and WHY DO I ... , do research for a couple of weeks, then fly to China to teach for five ... disappointments and failures; do yourself a favor, and learn how to move on from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  either acquaintances or strangers. how many people do we need in a room ... to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  enjoying doing a full-scale project. Our completed trusses   Best ... In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1 ... in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  . In fact, people here are free to do almost anything they think is a ... Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago. It was a momentous occasion in my life, a turning point from

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  I officially graduated from MIT last year, but I’m still here, doing ... '."]Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science[/annotation]offers a ... minutes each to complete. As you might imagine, particularly at a school

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  itself in a couple of falls. My immediate reaction was no. No I do not want ... I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes ... patterns. Pawn takes, knight takes back, bishop takes. It's a game of who

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  i do, tentative lines from a poem pop into my head. and a few more ... twenty minutes, then do a few practice problems for my physics exam next ... a soft couch helps! i update this post and do a bunch more physics

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  out. Not with their laptops in front of them, not doing a little work in ... free time, and I have a rewarding job doing research that is going to ... ’s a choice. There are certain things that I know I need to do to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  a real fast turnaround but I got to paint, I got to do a little bit of ... States. We were doing a lot of like Danny Phantom kind of flash graphic ... storyboarding on a film that’s CG has more limitations for what you can do with

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  do. It is a little weird sometimes… I distinctly remember walking ... , please! How do I life? Hope your road is a long one. ... extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it's only for those who have a school counselor. A principal, headmaster, or
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  be seen as flaky. How do you avoid being seen as a flake? Again - do ... If you are a senior, you know that you are playing for all the ... people in your life during your senior year. So what is it that GCs do

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  ’ve thrown it all into Dogecoin and be a millionaire right now.  Do your taxes ... Zealand, where I held a full-time job.  Most salaried jobs will withhold ... . Taxes are often withheld at a higher rate than what you actually need to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  with school related things Zoom - lol. things to do Pick up a new ... ideas, but anyway, I've been doing a lot of these things. I don't want to ... , but I know it could be a lot worse. Hope you all are doing well in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value of voting lies not in who wins, but how they treat you once they do? A ... That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  twerking, MIT style need more be said?

  

  Welcome to another edition of MIT Students Can Be Artsy™, aka We Do More Than Psets! Really!™, aka Things to Do On Saturday Nights at MIT™! Aside from a cappella, dance is another big thing at MIT.  And the largest

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 8, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  important. I've been building a robot for a class this month and it's now ... omniwheels on him, and gave him a battery + eeePc. He's just now learning to ... that we trained him to tweet whatever he's doing. So, if you'd like, you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  pushed submit. A week before the EA deadline. It felt good. But then, I found a spelling mistake. And nearly died of panic. After receiving ... , impatient for decisions, reluctant to do my other apps, doubtful of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009