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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a ... being an over-achiever, and MIT becomes the first place you can’t get

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of…

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

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

  

  exactly what they’re doing. :’’) Not me. I entered MIT with the vague ... . What I mean by this “privilege,” more specifically, is that an MIT

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  This semester has been different from anything else I’ve done. I started out taking 7.06, cell biology, and 6.854, advanced algorithms, the sequel (or what I thought would be a…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  matlab"]course 6[/annotation] classes at MIT. At the next meeting, I ... away from you at all times is a rare and valuable thing. MIT’s “make it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  my first year, I took a [annotation note="MIT's Undergraduate Research ... spent a good part of winter break rewriting the the MIT Mystery Hunt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  extroverted, often a little geeky - read your applications. And like MIT itself

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  motivation to apply to a great school like MIT or any other top university, you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me to deny just how much of a curmudgeon…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  next morning. Yes, this is totally awesome. It reminds me of MIT. It also

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  some exceptions - I submitted my MIT essay for Columbia; I still applied ... the MIT main essay) - but don't approach it in the same way as you would ... shaped who you are" or one of MIT's essay prompts ("Tell us about the world

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

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  from MIT as quickly as possible with a computer science degree, and then ... .  However, double majors aside, I definitely know some MIT students who ... communicate with our ground station at MIT, and orient its propulsion system

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  Harvard, as opposed to, I don’t know, red for MIT? Alan: The Green Line E ... station, and to get to MIT from the airport (for free!). We are not visiting ... station is right across the Longfellow Bridge from MIT. It was…so nice to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  tw: extensive discussion of anxiety, panic attacks; mentions of depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and is not a substitute for professional advice. —…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• 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, white and round like an ancient temple, while a thought crossed his mind, by no means…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  'm always down to chat about cooking at MIT, using odd vegetables, and making

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  MIT and/as Marathon, I wrote: When I was a grad student, I didn’t make ... ."]individual application[/annotation] to MIT. But I don't think you should be alarmed for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  announcing this positive development (such MIT lol). Targeted Issues and ... different from those!   If there’s anything I’ve learned at MIT, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like “ADMISSIONS BLOGGERS—EXPOSED!!!!!!”) Some of you may remember that a(n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  [annotation note='CourseRoad is a tool MIT students use to plan their classes ... they adapted to MIT. The question we now return to is that of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021