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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  may make them uncomfortable were sent to people I know. Racial tension ... experiences or really make an effort to consider others' opinions, the more you ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  about UROP opportunities, or asking my chemistry TA how to make up a quiz ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by ... to U.S. News & World Report, which makes a habit of knowing these ... to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... trusted MIT to make a good decision (though actually, I’d been almost ... Nowadays we seem to primarily battle problem sets and thesis snakes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• 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 / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... applied to ten institutions in total, a period marked by significant ... students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  means that it’s difficult to make broad claims about having a single ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  have done to help you get to where you are, not only by telling them so ... might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an ... arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... tips to figure out where you’ll fit best: Ask multiple residents about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  's forge to make knife and sword blades, and do metalworking in general. I ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... ! i didn't really think senioritis this semester would turn out to be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... .   So let's discuss admissions data. First, I'd like to say that I ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life ... great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question ... was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  issues, so you need to make sure she doesn't eat anything too fatty. Dog 1 ... little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  held on to the idea that they wanted to make a difference. They inspired ... -med? Wait, so why did you pick MIT?" It makes sense that I received this ... I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  you make, or strive to make the smartest decisions you can in any ... hallway while eating pizza. Maybe go over to a machine shop to make a crazy ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• 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 ... , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... . You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009