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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  Happy 10th birthday, blogs!!! I made you a cake! (With help from ... , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... ambitions), become a lawyer (wrong), and be married with kids within 5

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student (researching at a Department of Defense Research and Development Laboratory

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  them to do things and almost immediately receive a bunch of replies from ... can healthily manage in a semester, but I felt so fulfilled doing ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  dark brain fairies at bay, and now I make it a priority. I do make sure ... (see, e.g., Krystal, Rachel, Ceri, Ana). I've been thinking about doing one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  to do with my intelligence; I'm just rambling. You got A's because you ... really developed a good set of tools for what to do when those failed. This ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

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

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  from fellow alums who have felt similar things. It's a reminder that MIT truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for a while, and although we're all supposed to be doing work, this is ... turns out documenting everything you do, as you do it, takes quite a bit ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination ... a devastating mistake, and I'm not satisfied with how I'm doing now ... depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  brain and chances are I'll discover a new lead to doing the problem at ... yourself - what you like to do, your dreams, and what defined you as a person ... I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... 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

  

  .PH staff spent on training us, and how it would be a waste if I didn’t do ... Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing ... 'd be fine with doing for a huge chunk of my life—that the number of ... Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... list of games “You know, I just might be depressed.” “could a depressed person do THIS?” she says at am as she folds her laundry that came

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life ... live this close to a Starbucks ever again, but I hope I do. Chipotle: I ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... catalog. You should do it. Now. Here is the link. I have spent a whole

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  still people who live in a grayscale world, and do not see bright red ... threads." "Wow. Do you think that says a lot about MIT and our ... What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  disconnected from all the people there. I mean, how do you even start a ... "Why did you come back?" "Well, I'm—I'm a queer Asian...person, so..." "You felt seen." "Yeah." Imagine a fish out of water. When I was growing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  your application goes spiraling into a dark, anonymous vortex, and after 2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... “cold-hearted,” “robotic,” or “judgmental.” Not only do they think that we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019