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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live ... and totally deserve to let off a little steam. And they'll definitely be ... missing the floor Halloween party). It's a fantastic place to come home to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  a road trip, and I'll try my best not to get motion sick. We can sit ... can go to a library and get one of the rooms. And we'll talk, quietly ... graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  student. Sorry. There is a way to be qualified to come here, and that's by ... ...3...4", I realized that I wasn't really composed enough to hold a conversation ... 's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  . 2.009 photos by John Chow   During the Q&A session, I get ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... convey convincingly to others. The difference between a great idea and a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  serve as perfect mirrors when it gets dark. dancers used to use this as a ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could ... , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... 20 buildings. There’s a bike locked to a lamppost, surrounded by ... opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  intersection by getting way into the first assignment for 16.83, which is to ... I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... to Tennessee. I’d put it right on a farm surrounded by cows, just like ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it

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

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to ... getting to go indoor skydiving with the frat brothers. A dozen freshmen and ... prepared a resume, used MIT’s career office to get feedback on it, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... example to all and lived a beautiful, full life. These are some snippets

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  , a masters student (known affectionately by many as “Blue”) to get us ... aerodynamics testing there, and I was sent on a reconnaissance mission--to get ... video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the

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

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My ... ’ll be a postdoc at UC Berkeley, supported by a Miller Research Fellowship

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  's looking like red, but it's still a little too early to tell. I'll get back ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... -week, hour-and-a-half sessions into something I eagerly look forward to. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  keep learning and growing as a researcher, and getting the opportunity to ... to behave in a way that scaffolds children's creative behavior. My ... make a sandbox style game where children could place various objects to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020