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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... dozen people spring to mind, and I laugh and tell her, “A lot.” We share a ... Kornbluth trained as a cancer biologist, which has led her to be passionate

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  . Balance = well-being. Make perspective a priority. If you're too close to ... drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... month or two, make a mix cd, mp3 folder, whatever - just make sure you

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... Mashable writer Sarah Kessler. Startup Splash Networks wants to make ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  -Ford search algorithm is going to make me a better person, why should I waste my ... end in itself, but a means by which to build a better world, and I ... began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  teammates to make a presentation, look-alike model, and two working models ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert ... milestone was to have a product sheet, pricing, electronics diagram, and CAD

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  extra screen space really helps when you're trying to make sense of a ... also a professional strategy to help me make better decisions. Boring is ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  decide to uproot and find yourself making small talk over tapas at a table ... 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

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... getting a bad education. Choosing MIT just might make the whole process a ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  20 buildings. There’s a bike locked to a lamppost, surrounded by ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... already makes for a memorable life event, just because the next one won

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

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I'm a blogger, and have gotten to know a little of the administrative side ... will always be there for me, I console myself by looking forward to what

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... Institute affairs, make policy recommendations to serve social goals, and, yes ... and culture: we hold our students to a high standard and give them a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  we keep doing these things, not because they're guaranteed to make us feel good But because failing to do them is guaranteed to make us feel ... post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• 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 ... learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  taught by a specific person. I trust that there were clubs you wanted to ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  and making cool friends through cool friends at MIT. To give you a ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... back to visit a few times, and every time it's been a blast. Most

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’ve grown up to make Alabama a better place. I won’t say that Alabama itself ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  driving around a quiet neighborhood, taking random twists and turns to make ... Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by ... . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while ... opportunity to be a researcher there and surpass my own wildest dreams. Blue

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  does a really good job of trying to make sure that first years aren ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... drove my friends and I to MIT were so nervous. They wanted a detailed

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023