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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  comforts would yank us back to the paths drawn for us before we were born ... to MIT for my sophomore year.  The week before I flew off to the ... . After New Zealand, I’m irrevocably different in some senses—more prone to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... 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

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... the future. Preparing for the struggles that are to come with any ... understand what makes them who they are, and why. Getting to know their

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... by its dictionary definition and so for the sake of this post deserves

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

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  moment was something for the books, for the memories you recount to your ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?” “Well, this is just

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes ... applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a ... to chill for a few hours until the call-backs. To distract myself, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  nothing to do with you. I’m making this point because getting rejected from ... context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... university, for some reason or another, is not recognizing what you have to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  of my colleagues had battled the weather and tough commutes to get to ... 'll excuse me, I have to get back to reading! :) ... sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could ... involving education for kids, public policy, and using media to effectively

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms ... talk by Carl Wieman (Physics, 2001). Also, thanks to the UROP program ... you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for ... , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... listening to videos. At 7 pm everyone wants dinner, so if I'm looking for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was ... ! Luckily for me, my part of the presentation was first, so I got to get the ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... negligence w/r/t basic testing, not to mention the logistical curdles posed by ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  -buzz my hair and set me on a path of never having to pay for a haircut ever ... is necessary for self-sustainability) to be kind to myself Xiaolu, my ... 's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by

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

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  took until November for us to start hanging out after class. By the time ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... Mondays. Then, I walk two buildings over and I go to office hours for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  carry boxes to fighting for our friends who weren’t being granted ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... level used their platforms to advocate for others and to make sure as many

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  experiences. One project wasn't enough to make generalizations for. My list ... good for myself, because otherwise I'll have to deal with something I ... I wanted to play with friends. Making something useful for others is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live ... with balloons and herd everyone into the room to wait for you to come

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007