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• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  you laugh and to keep you from crying. So just remember, when you're ... : Integrated Chemical Engineering 12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch/Time to breathe 1:00 - 2 ... was awake. "Hey Boone, I went to office hours for ICE tonight." "Cool

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you. We've spent the last year thinking about you, getting to know you, talking to you, your parents, and more. After a ridiculously competitive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  . Congratulations on your final decision. You are about to enter an intensely wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a ... semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  most disruptive new technologies get created. Q: “In your respective ... from taking up an entire room to fit on a chip the size of your fingertip ... their research to MTL's industry sponsors like Lam Research and Global

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  problems on sheets of paper, and talk about your unwavering dedication to the ... 't, shouldn't be the real reason. It's not getting to the heart of the matter to ... ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As nerds procrastinating psets are want to do, MIT students hacked the poll

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get ... get a point across.) The essay is your chance to show that you're not a ... To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  directly to our site; and Mirat Shah, a junior who is studying abroad via the ... Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  while since you've Decided to test your chances And reach for your goals ... miss speaking Tagalog? Kuya, if someone talks to you Do your best to ... , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  , it'll get you where you need to go, but sometimes it breaks. If it ... day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure ... ' toys, are then sent to packaging so that they have a solid model to mold

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  , this blog is certainly not going to satisfy that curiosity. (You’re in ... , emotional, and psychological resources to fairly and fully consider your application. Which reminds me—I should probably get back to my queue and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  would like to get in contact with them to ask further questions, please email me and I can try to get you in contact ^_^)     ... stopped saying, “You can do everything you put your mind to!” and instead

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  was another huge success and an easy way to get involved in charity at ... The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has ... Boston (#37), but I have yet to earn my pirate's license (#64). I recently

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it, this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  on the spot and then schedule it to get published right after. I ... the UROP office and get funding. I'll get to all of that once I get over ... [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout most of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  your hall to get things done. Two people working on a problem set ... supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... -- whatever ... and when they get here, they feel an immense need to release

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  making. It was very wholesome, and he gave me a few tips on how to get ... of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in her blog post, I'm also trying to make a more conscious effort to catch

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... , writing. it took me a bunch of bad drafts to get here (nobody wants to see ... future you want. i’m still getting used to that quite frankly. i have to

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  milled them out of wood, and who were open sourcing their designs to get ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011