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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  to make sure every order was fulfilled correctly during the ... snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in ... full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  community, she'll be able to make great friends, and above all, she's a great ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 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…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another

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

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you're ... of time worrying about his career and ability to make art, and wonders ... tools to make my vision a reality.  It wasn’t until this past January when

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  schoolwork, and as my roommates come down to grab cups of water or make ... ,[/annotation] from a bunched up fist against my cheek, to my index brushing the ... , anxiety looming over me and making it even harder to work. When I’m not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  make being an engineer cool, that people might want to go to MIT instead ... . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... guarantee that I’m gonna make it? You never knew if you would be allowed to go to college [because of your undocumented status]. Some teachers didn

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in. It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS ... , and I think it'll be a while before a Hunt makes it to a museum. Its ... for, and the fact that you end up closer to your goal is, at least for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  documenting his work completely rebuilding Gus, which (he told us) he planned to drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I ... working at companies like WiTricity and OtherLab, and researching at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you’re ... Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to ... Bob is iconic and if you haven’t applied SOME lesson from SpongeBob to your

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  you are able to meet an MIT admissions officer at your high school, in ... happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  : Absolutely not. CJ: We make it back to JFK/UMass, and then take the same train ... before it went to Terminal A, we got to make our one and only stop which ... . We shared a lot of MBTA facts with each other, probably enough to make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  community of writers that you have gotten to know through your screens. These ... robotics company in Allston. I had felt at 18 that even if I'd gone to ... 's very first FIRST Robotics team. Now they regularly make it to two

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  all your MIT classes, eventually, you will have to fall into a pattern ... in your room- except to sneak out late at night in a trenchcoat to turn in your problem sets- and not say a single word of english to anyone

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  else might need to make sense of the essay. Like, you might know that ... of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it yourself, too. Take a step back, and while reading your essay, try to answer

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... , making sure to state that Riri was a resident of Simmons dormitory. Erick ... , in use 90% of its available time. So, it made perfect sense to make

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

  demons on depression

  

  church said amen and clapped and gave praise to God, for making the voice ... , and so I cried, I pleaded, and I said I would make an effort to believe ... itself, but needless to say it didn't really help in making me feel any

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  tell if your cat is plotting to kill you", also from Jakob. They say they ... blue jay, labeled "sea jay". This was given to me by a friend, making the ... field to another. People who are working in big companies or startups, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022