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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  -quarantine fatigue, to the massive number of teachers who left between 2020 and 2022 ... /systemic limitations and societal pushbacks. The lack of sparkly tourist attractions or ... walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  the very first day of school, sitting somewhere in the top left and ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... on all sides by enormous MIT buildings and think of all the cool shit

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... helping better predict the impact and trend of climate disasters My other ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do here. My dad follows the blogs very closely as well and the two of us ... 's writing, she uses a lot of adjectives . . . etc etc) and got more onto the

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others ... Reddit. Here are two of my favorite. The more and more I designed and ... . And, of course, more South Park. I looked into importing the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... ) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... elbow grease, carcinogenic automotive lubricant, and a home-brewed mesh of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... things first - the "Pleasure" and the "Department" prompts are not really ... some of the courses here can be), and that's perfectly fine! So don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  Campus (it was love at first sight, and the EC community is by far the best ... of the clubs I was interested in. Plans change, and that’s fine. The ... solid ground. Such is the nature of this school, and this is one of many

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  complete the race and ethnicity section of the MIT admission application ... little of the confusion is actually about racial identity and ... the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and home feel a world away; I am being taken by both the excitement and the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his ... from your freshman year, and the first class on your hall that you ... trip, walking past the Department of Transportation and the Smithsonian

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  female, incidentally, and through some quirk of the fashion industry have ... building the first rocket to take astronauts to Mars. Some of my classmates ... winners and astronauts alike. As a child of immigrant parents raised in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... say that this note and the feelings behind it was one of my favorite ... with the porch door open, the cold night breeze and the sound of crickets

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  .[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and ... sings at the top of her lungs, and, yes, my daughter's happy going to ... another room. Camille came out of the bedroom sniffling and she went

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  'm mentally and physically spent by my first semester at MIT; this time, part of the class of 2011 has been admitted and half of my freshman year is done ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  -state and out-of-state schools to give myself the option to leave home if I ... Confidential at some point and thought the idea of a bunch of competitive people ... ’t read example essays or try and force myself into the mold of a student

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  step and dramatically improve the lives of all the people you encounter ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us

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

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  rejection by heading the Continental Army, driving the British out of their own colonies, and becoming the iconic first president and, in many ways, the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Admissions and MIT students quickly put together in the span of a month. A ... , and events will keep happening through the end of April. I hosted an ... that I managed to pull through, thanks to the work of Wayne Z. ’23 and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  both in and out of the classroom. In addition to all my neuroscience and ... some of them. I can use wood and metal files. I can re-key the pins in a ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006