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  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... ). With these changes came ethical questions and considerations of how we

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best ... time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he ... . Presented with a hypothetical situation in which 18-year-old Elizabeth and 22

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more ... by hand, not with a script) on the people who had sent them from the ... grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  nervous because I share a lot of qualities with the author's young self ... together my intense curiosity for biology with my love for math! 2. What ... wrote the type of stuff I read, to connect with my crazy genius classmates

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  stick with my family. Ugh. Oh, and to top it all off, the only hobbies I ... 't even have my license yet. But none of this has to do with my intelligence ... /her message with any advice of my own but I will say that you should take this

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... skating are two notable ones) but some DID stick … and with an abundance of ... ? I suck at actual art. You know, the kind with shading, swoopy stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... came up with all sorts of bad ideas that pushed our stomachs, hearts, and ... were made from scratch - not with frozen dough! [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , I was dealing with it: I tried to occupy my attention with other ... night, and the ton of missed work I had to deal with afterwards, but man ... to spend with my family. ((Brief tangent: at another school's CPW

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... comparatively homogenous bunch. SAT scores are strongly correlated with parent income, and parent income is strongly correlated with their parent's income

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  gets up with the first alarm anyway? 8:24 -- The alarm goes off again. I ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... /pharmacology of synaptic transmission) lecture. Professor Wurtman is happy with the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  be no “college” without the hallmarks typically associated with the ... been placed with a traditional advisor (only advising) instead. but mit ... riskily, i decided not to. through a combination of psetting with friends

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  on the East Campus courtyard. The hallways were filled with boxes ... had to pack up way before I did. So it was weird, with half of the room ... other about plans. What are you gonna do with all your free time? Do you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  happened here these past three months…but with pictures (because I like ... during the year when the sun aligns perfectly with the infinite, and tons ... fun locked in with... As I noted in my first photoblog, PSets are not

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , unless they’re well-acquainted with the difficulties of this dish. It ... school lunch table, I remember being confronted with [annotation note ... an unfamiliar ethnic food in the presence of peers unfamiliar with said

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and ... a devastating mistake, and I'm not satisfied with how I'm doing now ... both sides has an extensive history with anxiety disorders and depression

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  there is nothing wrong with making haikus, and listening to them when they ... had three lines with this many syllables. Then again, if I randomly generated three-line poems with a couple words in each line I’d be bound to

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

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... remembered their MIT experiences and stayed in touch with the MIT "boys ... the time) with a thesis titled “Experiments on Resistance of Riveted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  ever exchanged with Spencer, the day after we admitted him in March of ... around with old car parts in his backyard, Spencer spent four years at MIT ... Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... , rather than MIT directly. It's almost like that with being Premed at MIT ... sometimes is really because premeds get a bad rep as people with no life and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... , with the energy and creativity to improvise if - when - something doesn ... coming up with a zillion ways to explain the same concept; one person might

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011