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  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  to be a part of, and I have never regretted the decision. 2. Freshman ... bed of a pickup truck, climb Mount Hua in China, and explore the ... them. All of the above sounds logical and straightforward. In practice

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• 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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... honest. And (to bring us to the meat of this post) when I leave my house ... done? Perfect fit. And the feeling of StreetPass-ing someone is just so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  50% of the lyrics right. The movie was good and filled in the gaps of ... house right before her flight out of Boston. We blasted the song over and ... the words and the theme of this one scene and song really resonated with

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  us expand the list of places to be sad, so fill out this survey and let ... , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes ... . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... 57 miles of shelves and is one of the largest open-stack libraries in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and ... each one of these admissions offices, and not one of them is MIT. On the ... by accident. It is intentional. The faculty and the rest of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you ... reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , it would be so easy for me to lose myself in the jadedness and void of ... up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just (maybe)barely totaled 56/120. This is 6.046, Design and Analysis of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at ... Orleans, and elsewhere. If you're on the West Coast, you may have heard of ... cold has been replaced by stifling heat and humidity, with the two week

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about ... Cape Cod, not-so-pretty shots of mac and cheese, an attempt at a timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to ... there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  terms of its equipment. Not all of the plates match, and many of them are ... view of the city, with, of course, great lighting. It’s mostly cardio and ... sometimes your workout or run is punctuated by the click and conversation of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at ... posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  us because of the prestige of MIT and doesn't actually know what this ... applications and the emotional rollercoaster of this college application process ... college and current roommate was a part of the Posse Foundation. Her group

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty ... such temptation. The thing is, as you might infer from the awards and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  makes. Unlike some parts of the country and the world, here in New ... the time of day), and leafy view of my backyard; at work, you'll notice ... 'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  inevitably, the intoxicating allure of the corporate world and all of its ... every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so ... recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  ... what about the academics?? I graduated with a 4.8 GPA (out of 5.0) - and ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student ... of the case that was important for me to remember. Also, Jordan (from ... Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004