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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  life. For those unfamiliar, cross stitching is basically textile pixel ... ? I suck at actual art. You know, the kind with shading, swoopy stuff ... work hard enough at it. I love crafts and making things. See MIT Mech

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes ... jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
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  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... , there have been many, many blog posts filled with advice for first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  experiment and see what works best for you. At least a few times in your ... for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... college experience, and I prepare for my 10-year college reunion, I thought

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive

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

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on ... for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  . Oh, boy did I learn about the importance of sleep. For me at least ... listening to videos. At 7 pm everyone wants dinner, so if I'm looking for ... ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My ... show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... ’t entirely true. For one, I get spooked easily. Whenever I entertained the idea

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  at each other without making eye contact for a few minutes. “I don ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling ... minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  cramming as much into their heads as possible for midterms. At this time of ... (researching at a Department of Defense Research and Development Laboratory, observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... saying that a great essay always contains something at the end for the ... essay for the differing prompts that each college required (there were

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had ... . The sun now set at half past four. The world as I knew it was no longer ... previously conditioned to when the sun set at 7 and I went to bed at 11. Only

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  with the same people. Moving at a [annotation note='For those of you who ... and advocate for students. We might be crusty, but I’d say we are warm ... world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  the windows, and the President herself smiled warmly at me behind a pair ... says about her daily life at MIT. She loves that you can get a daily fix ... love?  It seems that this may be the easiest question of all for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... the project leads for East Campus Build. Every year, [annotation note ... only have one measuring reel long enough, so for future years we’ll buy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  had finals for and at some point I started to feel like a maniac who was ... Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  to MIT for a meeting at 3PM, I'd put in the building's address, say I ... at things as you go by but not stopping for too long. There's the ... campus for their first year. But, maybe you're thinking about it anyway, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and recreational exploration."][/annotation] Bad Ideas is an annual tradition at MIT ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... spot at Baylor Med School), but my four days at MIT convinced me that MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an admissions office at MIT,[/annotation] it was located along the Infinite

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022