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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random ... measure material properties down to the nanometer – that’s a billionth of a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high-school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... aggressive, the answer felt obvious. But I applied to colleges using the “throw

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  schedule to include biology and neuroscience. By the end of this semester ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in--the ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... to go myself to reveal the wonders of Chemical Engineering to excited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• 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 ... Light) almost exactly the size of the Pantheon in Rome. To get there from ... to “leave the room” so the committee members could deliberate. At 11

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

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  were they supposed to get a car off the dome? Helicopters flew by all day ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  Gender Studies. How to get access The Cheney Room is open to all women and ... who are registered at MIT. You can gain tap access to the Cheney Room by ... Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  made me admissible to MIT — I started getting things wrong in the ... believed that what stands in the way becomes the way: it is only by moving to ... try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... either identified or caught by Harley. He’s consistently been the fastest

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  -English guide are inspired by How To Get Around MIT, the student-produced handbook ... . Among other things, they're the people you call when you need to get that ... this summer, I decided to get involved in helping produce the next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... few extra days to submit our applications. The due date was moved to ... . Wouldn't it have been safer to submit the overly-edited essay? I gave MIT

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  losing this person you've been getting to know. But it's better to have the ... real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... inspired to write this by an MIT confessions post, where someone complained

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  gathered around the TV to watch. The scavenger hunt isn't just about getting things done to get the answer to the puzzle—it's one of the few ... interaction for finishing, we needed to finish the Hunt by then. That was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle ... Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another groomsman. Laura '06 and Tulasi '06 performed the readings, which were by ... foldability and distance. The planes were a little bit pointy, I'm not going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... activities you choose to do, the major you choose to pursue, the classes you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... unlikely to change is because the priority is enrolling the desired class

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011