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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at MIT, I've been the treasurer of Chinese Students Club, President of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... century, [annotation note='According to MIT Libraries, the MIT Admissions ... admissions office at MIT,[/annotation] it was located along the Infinite

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... 'd spent nearly every single day staring at a computer screen, reading or

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the problem set on my computer screen, neck craning down. The music in ... from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks ... to think about what my grades would have been if MIT hadn’t implemented

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... in Boston was screening Interstellar a couple of times on Wednesday ... importantly, I escaped the infamous “MIT Bubble” that I had slaved under for the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  screening before you were definitively admitted to MIT; we said "not only can ... to enroll at MIT, but I think it also applies to people thinking about applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  ; this means taking vitamins and prying myself away from my computer screen ... , Principles of Awareness, this semester (with Joi Ito, who directs the MIT Media ... Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT). one of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more ... half an hour," he said, "to write about being an MIT admissions blogger

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  as an admissions officer at MIT, it is made clear in your contract that ... the fact that the beaver was chosen as MIT's mascot in part because "his ... usually either running around the Charles, on my way to the MIT gym, or

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

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  History of MIT (2)   Reasons Ranked I went through the reasons ... you will take at MIT. so much fun. i felt like a little kid again ... connecting with the world outside of MIT, and where I could actually work on

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  brain and in my hands and on my paper and on my computer screen. That ... anger. It doesn't feel like me. I thought being away from MIT would start

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  . Now it’s your turn. Here is where Random Hall is: If you’re an MIT ... Sure, you've had ice cream before. But now you're at MIT—it's time for ... Domination! Up in the morning, ready to seize the day, watch your enemies

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  female MIT student publicize stereotypes that actively work against her ... MIT are faced with some of the most brutal exams in the country. But I ... “dominant” male behavior, and at Harvard they found that Asian-American women

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  laptops that MIT recommends: Macs, Dells, and Thinkpads. I’ve seen MIT ... . My parents gave me my MacBook Pro as a gift before I left for MIT. It ... my laptop was in its sleeve. Phew. A laptop lock. MIT dorms are very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  the MIT tunnels with beautiful murals that animate when you point a ... we could go on an adventure. There’s this nice spot in the MIT tunnels ... screen, and it just feels like us, side-by-side, talking. And maybe you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  the screen and got back to work. -- TWO WEEKS AGO -- I had received an ... ’t come to MIT to relax or even to hang out. I came here to learn, and in ... teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  matter for infinite magazine and mit gala I make graphics for [annotation ... [annotation note='our undergrad fashion show']MIT Gala[/annotation]! This year ... by two MIT alum, hosted a workshop centered around their computational

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  students' MIT acceptance moments, prompted by a pre-Pi Day email thread ... look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... , “OH RIGHT MIT LET ME JUST SAVE MY GAME AAAAAA” and then came the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Ben Bell Sophomore MIT-Israel Program Internship: Ben Gurion ... screen among known drugs for necrosis against a potential drug to see if ... MISTI MIT-Israel students came together for a 5 day seminar learning about

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  thoughts Introduction I entered MIT as a potential bioengineering major with ... MIT's Intro to EECS classes, with each of the Intro to EECS classes ... probably my favorite lecturer at MIT so far, even though I've only taken

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020