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

  

  each other. I finally discovered my passion in life, and now I get to put ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... , academics, grades were the most important, which has taken me two years to get

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... , if not as, excited about that as I was to initially get into MIT. I had ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  walk, when I run, bouncing, being blown by the wind. When I get my hair ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... , in a way, to being woken up by sunlight, and seeing everything as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  Cream to This (Death by Exercise) || VEDA #19 – focus groups, dancing, AXO ... to bump my own post... but I also don't want my videos to get ... sometimes. I'll probably post the video and then try to get a little more

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• 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 ... there was no way I'd ever get up again if I went to bed. And yet I was ... Physics, that I would get to the last problem set that I would ever turn in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  to tell you about this semester. Eventually, one-by-one, they will ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations ... .com. “Today, it’s complicated.” The film screening was followed by a discussion ... flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• 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 ... ’re surrounded by people that know what is around the corner miles before they get ... , who loved and supported me and told me that if I wanted to get out, I

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

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one. If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  succeeded somewhere else. Everybody loses. And I hate to lose. By the same ... who apply to MIT every year are qualified for admittance, by which I ... principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... growing (it's okay to fail) My sophomore fall was by far my most difficult

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For many years, many Cambridge residents had limited access to healthy, fresh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  and I were only able to finish the mechatronic parts of the project by ... .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted ... paper, this sounds really cool, and I was super excited to get started

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  commit to MIT.  Since Kenneth grew up surrounded by Black Greek culture ... 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

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to get decent enough grades to apply for graduate school) or find research

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... Linn Hobbs. Though tempted by many to begin work at the State Department ... robes required to eat by candlelight), and on the right the Pepys Building

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

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013