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  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  It was 8:00pm on a Thursday night when I received a text message from a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions ... helping coordinate the opening show for our Campus Preview Weekend - a super

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with ... , whip out our new planners and notebooks and folders. It's a new academic year, a blank slate, a fresh start. A momentary burst of confidence and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  were both sick, had a super long and challenging 6.00 pset (literally stayed in office hours for 15 hours), a 6.042 pset (wouldn’t have been able ... the night before it was due), Danny had a CMS.100 essay, Allan had a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  word here before, like it’s a thing - becoming jaded with being at MIT ... yourself that you’re living out a rare and coveted opportunity, and generally ... describe how I’ve been feeling, but I know there was a point in the past when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  ’t apply as a fictional character. You know, the one with the pure 4.0, 2400 ... friend and classmate? Don't invent a character. Describe yourself. (from ... authentic. A Yale admissions officer said that once. Write strong. Be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

   This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... ’t worry! If you are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited ... next? A: First, you should create a MyMIT account. Then you should

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a magnificent ceremony for all students (who each created a video), and there’d be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  neck, you can see a silver SUV trundling down Mass Ave. My room has one tiny window (this one) and one larger window facing east, which let in a ... blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  After going through a quarter-life-crisis and switching a lot about ... ". If any of those words gave you a giddy feeling, you should absolutely ... taught it, Fall 2012, he earned a 6.8/7.0 teaching score in the end of term

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  made online as a prefrosh even before CPW, thanks to the new admissions ... the time -- this is before there was such a thing as the App Store ... pioneers! I remember that a few enterprising prefrosh, while counting down

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even though it's a summer course) THAT COMBINES BIOLOGY AND MULTIMEDIA AND LETS ... (Creating Digital Learning Materials for Biology) This course is a student

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... other hand, there will always be a whatever ... ’s last home game of the year and, consequently, Senior Day, a day to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  dangling off towards the garbage can. There's a box sitting on my otherwise-empty bookshelf, a shirt and a purse strewn across my desk, an empty closet, a pile ... presentation and I had just found out that there was a small magnetic field

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  , preparing mentally for the arduous rides ahead. After a particularly hilarious ... cart for a store fixture, attempting to remove items for their own use. After a night’s rest, the team woke up and cooked breakfast, then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  's Cookie." Lewis, an art history major at Princeton, is a famous journalist ... eponymous book. Lewis first became famous writing Liar's Poker, a memoir of ... path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... of a blogger's life, having so much to blog but not enough time to ... catch you guys up on what I've been doing. I will start it with a post

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  Today, I accidentally dated a journal entry "18 August 2008". As I ... globe. It was a terrifying moment. Feeling old got me thinking about the ... admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  teaching me things that I will be using in my future career. It is a great ... . Having less than two years left, I have starting freaking out a bit about needing to eventually find a real job and about knowing what I want to do. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  spent a blissful afternoon walking around Provincetown. After a refreshing ... think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... a really nice custodian that would always come by around 2 AM that I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010