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  The end of a chapter

  

  studying abroad, I thought I should do a little reflection on my experience ... was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever ... manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and I didn’t have a rebellious streak beyond my accidental goth

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  people what they like to do for fun is a fantastic window into their world ... hiker—I don’t do this on a consistent basis but it’s the perfect getaway ... focused on what I liked to do for fun, I’d always be able to find a job. I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  transformative experiences in situations like these, and even do a great deal of ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  future will be a mystery any more. ... So, friends, every day do something ... you can do a thing, even a very specific thing like code a mean compiler ... facet of my many academic fascinations, there is a professor at MIT doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  kill me, I do not make a sound. I give you a studfinder. You ask me for ... . Rolling did not sooth you. Men do not roll. You are a bug. This intrigues ... hoodie and smoking a cigarette. Nursen O. ‘15 You email out looking for an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  doing all the right things, and, as a complete side effect, you’ll be cast ... don’t, however, use this as a checklist of things you have to do to get ... Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  stayed up until a totally unreasonable hour doing my 8.03 pset, which I ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... for MIT?" My mind went blank. Qualified? What a strange word. I thought

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... please, if you find yourself sitting on a stove, do yourself a favor and ... talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  video, I guess I went on a virtual tour at MIT (which we're back to doing ... video (or 1.25 hours if you watch it all on 2x speed). I'd say it's a ... things have thankfully changed a lot, but a lot of things seem like they

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  hadn't figured out how to do it, and I left feeling like a disappointment ... then sends a request to the Google Speech To Text (STT) API, using the ... cried a lot and felt like I was useless and not doing enough for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... , Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Peter Diamond among a few others. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... Frank video about dealing with rejection. He has a very soothing voice and always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  spoil it). If you do stay through the credits, do me a favor -- watch ... On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  to offer and time management, all while doing a good job. It ... friends asked me how I was doing a few days before finals, I struggled to ... Campus preview weekend (CPW) at MIT is just what it sounds like—a

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

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  [annotation note="certainly not A, for “I’m doing great!”"]O, for Absence ... the end of a semester, condensed into a single week. So, how exactly do ... ’t really do much of anything. It’s like a ghost, loudly taunting you but

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because ... dissatisfied with the idea of working as a software engineer and longed to do ... astrodynamics for the first time. I remember doing a 16.07 lab where we had to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... sorting, editing, and selecting photos. Final takeaway: do not work on a ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP ... 't seem like there was ever a big identity WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE ... observatory, and figured that I could lead a joint research/outreach life - do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012