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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... you’re curious to know something, MIT will give you the tools to figure

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... the springs: you’re gonna be starving. Good thing Austin knows how to ... will be able to handle this much force on it. Go back to your

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... +/Hulu/Netflix if you're trying to take a study break kitchen with snacks free tea ... adjacent to this area, so it might get loud between 7 and 11 pm Building 36

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  requirements to get there. Maybe I have to take a few steps off of the beaten ... . Maybe we'll start getting some answers to all the questions we've been ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  essays on end, you need to stand out. Ideally, your essay should pack ... , unable to get help. A worsening stomachache can lead to appendicitis that ... 's focused on you and your stories. Use these opportunities to tell a story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... , Professor Sive, indeed. 10:00pm: John '98 asks when I'm going to get around

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... not to you.      You may give them your love but not your thoughts ... , which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.      You may strive to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  think it's important to know that your college's way of doing things isn ... . Try as I might to pretend otherwise, I get really unhappy and overemotional ... experience so shaken that I now go to bed between midnight and 1 and get up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... healthy dose of Acceptance to wash down your Rejection ... 't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... question of which futures I would like to leave on the table. Before we get

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... you get to Mexico from New York, you could have flown from London over ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I ... , and if we get enough people we could play Castlefall. We could listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and ... quick to introduce and connect with each other, so not only do you get to ... had even joined one. As he was initially getting to know different Kappa

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... to college [because of your undocumented status]. Some teachers didn ... that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  /scanner to me. It's being renovated right now, and I really hope I'll get to ... to leave it. Future me, if you're reading this, I hope that you miss ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close

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

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to ... hugging your laptop, which is still on, so it doesn't get stolen; also, you ... there was no way I'd ever get up again if I went to bed. And yet I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007