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  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  the campus surrounding 77 Mass Ave, but instead immersed in the ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic ... theirs. This post has been several months in the making, as I navigate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... work in the cleanroom to design and fabricate our own nanotechnology

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online. There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example ... food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... friends on hall. The next day I had dinner with some friends in the area

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay afloat in the deep end that is my job, and connecting with polar opposites ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Street MBTA station, the Boston Common, oldest park in the country, is the ... the park in a glorious architectural mix are an AMC movie theatre, a ... sitting in the Common’s green spaces with the freshest breeze teasing our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... did nothing but study and mire in awkwardness. And I learned that a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise. Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... Friday I turned in my last problem set ever at MIT. So the other day I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  too. But ultimately, it kinda just feels like another day in the life ... of bed in 20 minutes is unfortunately pretty good for me these days ... yesterday evening, and there is a lively discussion in the chat about what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5 ... ) 12.400: Our Space Odyssey (1) 18.504: Seminar in Logic (1) 18 ... lot of the reasons mentioned the content of the class in different ways

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... . Go on walks alone. Go on walks in the middle of the night. Go on walks outside MIT. Go on walks with friends. Go on walks in the tunnels. Follow

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... stuck in this limbo of not knowing? As human beings, we are constantly focusing not just on “what is”, but “what can be”. In many ways, this is good

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may ... feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my best." Literally verbalize it (out-loud, in a whisper, in your head

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there ... , and have success in college and beyond. 1. Senior Year of High School

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it ... given much. That does not mean that everyone has received in equal measure ... reflect this value. In short order, our decisions will be released and the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012