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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 ... explains how, as a dog lover at heart, she has gotten into the hobby of doing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at ... three paragraphs about what I mean, I should give you at least one

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , not August or September. The rain I've experience back at home is quite different from the rain here. Back at home, if it does rain, it will rain for ... rain, at least, not that I know of. I remember the first time I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  the steps of the traditional planning process—looking at past events ... somewhere at the back of my mind, taking up space. All of our new planning has been thrown out, and it's not at all clear if CPW will even take place

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
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  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 ... the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something ... it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  campus at a desk I didn’t skim through solutions, hoping I’d get ... actually kept 8 hours consistently throughout because that’s at least what I ... reflected in this. And right after I finished at 9:30 tonight, I was hit by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  computer lab I’d sneak glances at neighboring people’s wpm and quietly gloat ... people had wpm’s over 100. Other people started beating me at SET. Other ... friends unconditionally affirming my place here, my last semester at MIT, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the ... , Michelle. You were Good at Things in high school, remember? You won stuff ... random places, all of which I seriously considered for at least the time I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... so far. I'm not good at transitions, and it's been a transition. At ... the kitchen, dangling my legs up at the ceiling like I used to when I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  do your best work late at night, embrace that. It may be the only time ... experiment and see what works best for you. At least a few times in your ... scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  top-notch student who had all the qualifications to succeed at MIT. So ... actually grab the folders to look at the scores, since that wasn't the part

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  orientation session at ETH, the word Eigenverantwortung popped up during one of ... Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at ... :  Accept the offer to study at ETH  Pick classes from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  myself looking at dozens of issues over dozens of years, digging through ... efforts were necessary, because at the time, a smaller proportion of ... quoted saying that the events are similar to those held at other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... says ‘IHTFP.’ You find yourself whispering ‘IHTFP’ at random moments. You ... . You copy it down. You tell the freshmen at the sailing pavilion that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even ... admissions. The two of us were sitting down at Rockin' Rogers enjoying ... becomes serious. I spend a lot of time at MIT very stressed, this semester

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... , sometimes at the cost of letting old skills atrophy. The second part of this ... right after we “finished” it at the end of January, but then the rush of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Cambridge campus’ construction. At the turn of the century, a still-young-but-growing MIT looked at its student life and found it lacking. Here, the greatest ... longer seem as foreign as it did at the time. The gym was completed shortly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• 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 ... his own to reach his own conclusions. Just look at the Mona Lisa - did da Vinci write, in golden font at the base of the painting, "Look at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in ... took at the same time) formulate a proof. This was a huge amount of ... of power at the intersection of fields. It is valuable to be able to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015