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  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... cobblestones, and happy laughter flutters down to us at street level from ... at night is like dreaming. Pretty houses, pretty fences—it is our

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  -watching! There is plenty to look at besides passing humans as well, like the old ... a coffee at the Thinking Cup, an adorable coffee shop for the tired ... complete the satisfactory outing, we had at least a dozen different bubble

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for mirchi, an bollywood/fusion dance group who performed at south asian ...   stuffed my face at boston restaurant week... two nights in a row ... celebrate less than 100 days left at MIT!   a few days ago i

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

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work ... , embodied, manifest in some material form) I think is just as interesting, at ... reading until we have read all the applications, period. We read at night

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors ... to “leave the room” so the committee members could deliberate. At 11

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  you and other runners leaving at your time will sort of swirl, in a ... , three days later, shot Sean Collier outside the Stata Center at the ... subjects, I would shrug and figure I just wasn't ‘naturally' good at e

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  wish is to go unfulfilled. You have another midterm tomorrow morning at 9 AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started ... I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East

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

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  , forever gaping at you. It only took a week—my first week as a freshman ... things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the ... Requirements. I needed it to graduate. Another funny thing about classes at MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  Campus preview weekend (CPW) at MIT is just what it sounds like ... , at least there were always interesting things to do and think about ... completed with excellence. At the core of what makes MIT challenging is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... Luncheon on Reg Day. I’ve paneled at every one since. The Returning ... , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the

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

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some ... have the same feeling when I look at my personal blog and realize it ... in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math

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

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did ... examination at MIT, and I didn't feel a sense of relief. Just moments after the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... attended at most one class per subject per week. I skipped all 18 ... week, I would end up sleeping 4 hours or less on at least 2 or 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... over my shoulder at the computer screen. The sun was having a joyous time ... papers, each new paper being marked with a worn yellow post-it note at the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  heart thump, waiting… Things didn’t get any better when I arrived at the ... uncle and his family waving at me, unaware that it wasn’t over yet. Oh ... of them at once from the baggage-claim room to outside the airport

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... semesters left, and there are at least fifteen or twenty classes that I would ... regular at the Brain and Cognitive Science colloquium; running up to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS ... living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... don't have an 14.01 pset, you'll wake up to at least ten emails between

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... ="attachment_99789" align="alignnone" width="768"] hike with friend[/caption]   At the ... exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on ... blogger himself during his time at MIT!!! How cool is that? You all should ... grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021