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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I ... the very start of the semester I got in a fight with a friend and her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  and then making the first, generous donation; Shannon Larkin of CMS ... Hopkinton, gave away my first pair of single-use sweatpants, and ran the ... starting line of the Boston Marathon. The ground will be cold, and probably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... , and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat ... photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... surrounded by people who excel in every corner of the universe, and no longer ... . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . The Office of the First-Year maintains a list of these kinds of subjects ... should have (most of) the requirements memorized by the end of your first ... parts of the GIRs you've done, and which parts you're missing. You don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... with the family of one of my students, and they were warm and welcoming and generous (especially with helpings of pasta). I loved the affection

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

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  rumination and pages of beginnings. My first time, this happened under a full ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... that sounded like the first syllable or two of “congratulations,” so he ... , past the bottle of hand sanitizer and signs indicating which doors to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  disillusioned with graduate funding, and of the Academy in general. Imagine ... lag and continuous curry takeaway (the national dish of England), the ... , squeeze between an antiquarian bookseller and the Arts Theatre of Cambridge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  camaraderie and the solidarity of our aquatics team, we triumphed over our defeats and inevitably reached the pennant of victory." "Back in July, my ... no machine can tell you. You've been warned. Click.) 3. The first and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , suitcases) full of paper folders back and forth from the office to read them ... them, I thought back upon the months of January and February, and how I ... another day, another week of committee. Rinse and repeat, so went the days

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

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , when I had to spend the first night reading twenty dense pages of Plato ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole ... media studies, at just about 50 pages of double-spaced garamond, was the ... cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  the pleasure of preparing next year’s, and it’s been fun. i also joined ... series on scp, and binged a bunch of videos from brian jordan alvarez the ... narrower and narrower, until it came to the point that i’ve reduced most of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  celebrate and show your community spirit! And one of the main ways people do ... present a specific portion of the ring and what each little detail meant. Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate ... liked the drawing I'd made while waiting for him and seemed really ... about and working on my essay. And reworking it. Over and over again. The

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008