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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... ’s worth a read.) I’ve started three other aborted blog posts trying to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... sick. Adding -ej- makes it to a place, malsanulejo, a place for sick ... ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  now. What used to be a maintained sting like an open wound, now merely ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... ..." thinking, and really makes it easier to accept the reality, and look beyond

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  have it shipped to your dorm room, but make sure your sheets are twin ... , because the beds aren't fantastic, and you really need to make the most of ... sure to do that at some point. Also, an umbrella, a hat, gloves, a scarf

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... center offers a lottery to all students (grad or undergrad) for a chance to ... room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  stand on the sidelines - I want to make a difference. To this end, I ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ’s attempt to gain a command was somewhat futile to begin with because he was ... can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have nothing to do with you. I’m making this point because getting rejected from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• 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

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  a little beyond the standard "it's okay to make mistakes") it is not ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself to make some low-commitment dailyvlogs, avoiding scripts and mostly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 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 / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  listen to a stranger’s conversation? Our professor, Shariann Lewitt, tells ... it makes for a particularly good case study. We also discuss China ... ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... 't make a whole lot of sense - my apologies. But my point is that it's taken me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four ... , structures, and everything else that makes an airplane fly or a rocket orbit ... and have been able to rattle off a list of their five favorite airplanes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... 't have a holistic process. Suppose that we wanted to build an application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... geeky, but it’s truly a fantastic feeling to understand the biological ... most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Day. The Pretender is a song about making a resolve to go out there and ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... Services will add an X and make it a pair. In my circles, it’s a pretty well

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,100-person team to climb a very interesting ... part of a community that inspires me to create, challenges me to accept

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018