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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  with me past midnight trying (and failing) to build a snowman. I’m sorry ... only two are technical heavy-workload classes. I had started off with an ... , sometimes scientific, sometimes philosophical. It was a small class, with

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  , come up with solutions, and spend weeks coding in TypeScript to develop ... meet with our team to talk about the app we're working on. Every day in the afternoon, we meet with our coaches to talk about our progress on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  "blizzard of 1978 boston." Also, Ohio. But I guess Google's search ... getting my decision even faster. With credentials like those, I thought, the ... these words in an abstract for one of his papers: "When a man sits with a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and filled with some of the most passionate people you'll ever have the ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... been by Cami M. '23 in search of lost time by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24 and ... STICK WITH ME HERE"]log off.[/annotation] What I have loved about reading

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  inviting. Wall Street, maybe, or a consulting firm, something synonymous with ... friend, grabbed two cups sloshing to the brim with milk tea, and left ... Tumblr: “We would commiserate with each other about how high school felt

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I ... community of writers that you have gotten to know through your screens. These ... (and no, I'm not at all Latina lol) by cooking with Spanish House which

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

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

  

  travels this Fall. With the Early Action season starting in full swing ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... as a result, coming in with no research experience or major math

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  filming randomly with my phone, but I hope that I'll get more comfortable ... spam MIT Admissions with too many daily updates, so I'll put all the videos in a playlist below. Here's a masterlist of all the vlogs, with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  graduation I could always go home, spend time with the fam, and keep searching ... China in June, UROPing in Boston with a surprise stint at some Google ... want to work first) I was left with a feeling of real panic and (somewhat

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

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  with headphones on, staring at the computer screen. Perpetual state of ... posts with my strongest memory from that time: the night that I told my ... about, starting with the depression. (Angelina G. recently wrote a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  , stumbling onto Anna’s post, “Being Qualified for MIT”, but only with distant ... ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... about the US admissions process, and hadn’t been searching, but the idea

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I ... kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up ... mistake, right? When I met with my advisor, I told him I wanted to take 18

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to my cellphone screen. I was moderately aware of how I looked, my 3M

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  companies fill up two gymnasiums and a track field with booths and you have to ... bet that you guys are doing this with the "Why do you want to apply to ... 'm especially terrible at coming up with. Imagine if your MIT interviewer started

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  was a nice thing to fidget with while walking down hallways at 2 AM ... packet is this cloth sphere, maybe five centimeter diameter, filled with bird seed, held with a rubber band. You throw these spell packets and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  Admissions office with a green screen background.   Outside MIT and Lobby ...   Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We ... new Iron Man with Riri Williams.” This sentence, and the conversation

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with people, and those peopled filled with eagerness, then silence, then ... .com. “Today, it’s complicated.” The film screening was followed by a discussion

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  going to! I'll start with a picture. It is 2014, and an embarrassment to ... better. First and foremost, I'm incredibly happy with the people in my life ... around campus because they fear they won't find friends with the mindset

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  this happened and what the food means with a lot bit of fangirling. Enjoy ... with a wide range of possibilities. Here are some options I considered ... gives me an established color palette to work with. Ultimately, I didn

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020