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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  EC to BC someone whizzes past on a three-wheeled electric skateboard ... was, and I finally resolve to get up. Behind me on the fort a string of ... Review was what started me on the path to MIT, well over a decade ago, when

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... recognize her face and her title, but what is the President of MIT like on a ... dozen people spring to mind, and I laugh and tell her, “A lot.” We share a

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

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  out. march on, march on. guest post by Piper ('17) -- a new friend, and ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  day, blogging about Ring Premiere used to be a BIG DEAL - hey new ... free food on campus, but for a whole week is actually kind of hard to do ... managed to stay for a full game. :( 20. Go clubbing on Lansdowne St. - I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... took detailed notes on a completely random person’s dramatic conversation ... listen to a stranger’s conversation? Our professor, Shariann Lewitt, tells

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

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy ... of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  hometown city appears on road signs after a long drive – so close, but so far. I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... Atlantic to begin his studies as a Marshall Scholar. The Marshall ... . It's a long way from Moultrie, GA, to Cambridge, MA, and an even longer

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

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

  

  . Consider whether you want to live on a floor (e.g. Random or Maseeh) or in a ... 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

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday ... crammed my work for NOI.PH a little bit, before I ride on a plane to Detroit ... someone from Delta booked me a new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... ’s been months now without a new post. Where to begin again? But here is ... ’s kind of like plodding uphill knee-deep in mud on a hot humid day. Who

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my

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

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

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... and making cool friends through cool friends at MIT. To give you a ... 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

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... restructured itself on a fast, personal and somewhat upsetting level. I had to go ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... picture): The most recommended place to cry on campus was the Cheney Room

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017