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  Paths there are so many

  

  in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going

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

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... where MIT invites all its admitted students on campus to find out what MIT ... have long since disproved so let's move on to haikubot why do we need a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• 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 ... particularly refers to personal ads about missed connections: You were on your ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now what? At this point, your most likely option is to go back and ... length segments, on the XY plane, and then use a Box component to extrude ... cooking, if you just take the time to make your model right. I find recipes

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  realize you're standing on thin air. This leads me to my other, ancillary ... put on the blinders. Never try to wrest too much control of your life ... fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... gun move with the body and the breath. You control your breath to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  robes required to eat by candlelight), and on the right the Pepys Building ... Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... documenting his work completely rebuilding Gus, which (he told us) he planned to

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

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

  

  selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your

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

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... week!), I discovered new favorite places and once again ascertained that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• 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 ... start to notice your absence and wonder what’s happened to you. After not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 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 ... start with a few in your head and see what happens to them as you begin

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... all to acquire your MIT wings. There's nothing wrong with taking a look ... whole years to learn all about us. And on that note... Take what we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  disciplinary or other action that occurs after your admission to MIT. We have the right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that

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

  demons on depression

  

  be an engineer". I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so on ... dad knocked on my door and asked to talk. As I discussed my feelings and ... . He threatened to kick me out of home if I insisted on being an atheist

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a ... leaving everyone behind.  When I came to MIT, I quickly met lots of people ... do you mean you’re waiting for your refund to hit?  What do you mean

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Veys were super happy, and quickly found other techie tasks for me to do ... my seat and begrudgingly turn off wifi on all my TSA ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  background science too quickly. Trying to please everyone here. (Here. In ... at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... position for rich, new experiences that could somehow shape your identity ... where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  out on my own; I took a leap of faith and moved to New York. When I ... to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then ... like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023