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  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for ... January 1st to me. It's always defined a new direction for my life. Three ... heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  January 1st, 2016 (yes, I spent New Year’s Eve on a plane). After settling ... teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... to scribble here and there on my tumblr blog. But again, it was only

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  like, and gain a new perspective on research and broaden academic journey ... students hail from every corner of the globe: New Zealand to New York City ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  's currently working on a video game. Spring 2009 to Spring 2012: Ben Y. '12 ... Conner, Macgregor's suites are lettered from A to J, New House houses are ... distributed amongst the stage, and we made a bunch of pillows for them to sit on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  like a farce, like a four-year-long audition, and then we would go on to ... , a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried ... handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  yell, "JESS HAS A NEW BLOG ENTRY!!" and proceed to plop down on his bed ... reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... 'm happy to say still continues on to this day. Being a blogger allowed me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on ... happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some ... forward to coming back and doing things. I'd guess that I was also on the ... middle of a semester can be hard, sometimes, due to scheduling and school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  head. On a related note, I think I put a lot of pressure on myself to ... plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... solution! Make sure to spend a lot of time on font, text size, color palette ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
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  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not ... student: the never-gone-to-lecture-and-what's-a-TA-but-still-got-800,000%-on ... happened to be standing right there, going on about amide formation. And then

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  .org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course ... back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  put in a lot of time and effort to take college classes or take on ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... backgrounds, and you can’t discredit yourself solely on a standardized test

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  suburban New Jersey county. I applied mostly because a friend was applying ... did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015