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• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead ... 'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather be closer to or ... weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  contribute at this hackathon since we were expected to physically build ... together before the hackathon (which was allowed at this competition) to ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... blend their real identities with their Unix ones. (Looking at you, Yuzhi ... trampled in the mass of hundreds of engineers and interns champing at

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep ... being at MIT helped you in this regard? MIT has been really good for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ('Tell us about an experience which, at the time, really felt like "the end ... must have checked the clock at least fifty times in every class. It wasn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  in society as an ethically-minded (at least I hope) science advocate ... one of the most difficult things I’ve experienced, and at least giving myself a chance at grad school was bizarrely a part of my grieving process

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  good at math. My personality consisted of being good at math and enjoying ... , I was still pretty good at math. Not the best in my year, but ... region, and that would make me happy. I was good at math, and I got noticed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  year old black woman from Chicago studying at MIT. She was to take over ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in ... made an excellent blog post about it at the time. (I, personally, was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  much CS experience and not being very good at it. Now, nearly nine ... interning at Microsoft under their New Technologists program. And while the ... the front-end of our app to present at the end. The program is split

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It ... on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My ... would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles ... playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  many awards for being a stud at her sport that I’ve lost count, a sister ... all overheated in the UV that is surely at least 13, then jump in all over again.  One thing is always certain after spending an afternoon at

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  everything at the wall and see what sticks” strategy, including small towns and ... backgrounds at MIT. And it was okay that I needed longer to adjust to Boston ... deserving to be at MIT. People talked about working at leading cancer research

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  evenly between my childhood companions and my closest friends at MIT. The ... significant amount of forethought and editing. At least that’s what I tell ... thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across

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

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  to table to floor and back, singing our hearts out and feeling joy. At that time, I was preparing to return to MIT, wrapping up my work at ... ready to be at MIT again, especially an MIT that had changed so much while

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ?” He paused. “When I was at MIT,” said this man, who graduated a very ... ’t come back with a monologue about how admissions actually work at MIT, and ... point at all. Instead, I managed to deflect the conversation to things I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling ... emotional instability. Two days later I had a procedure at MIT Medical to ... Eric at Tufts. My dad tells me that when he and my mom were at Phys

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a ... 'm doing at the moment. I always feel like I have to tread gently to prevent ... stories. Not so great for lying awake in the dark at 3am. My family on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  have been stared at, asked countless times the “what are you” questions ... incidents at University of Missouri, though arguably MU’s incidents were more ... at Yale was not a far away, irrelevant incident. It was a red apple

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016