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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  application is then read by a primary reader who will summarize it at length for ... up at the mention of cell biology, how you were five minutes late ... , but at least it's fair. (And by fair I mean fair in the context of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  camera at it. We can take the T to Faneuil Hall, cram ourselves into the ... shop at Newbury; we could go to Prudential and complain about how expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two in the morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  admissions office at MIT,[/annotation] it was located along the Infinite ... -001. Anyway, let me set the scene: one day in the summer of 2020—at the height ... authorized campus access at an unmarked service door at the basement level of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education ... assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  numbered, and repeated as endnotes at the bottom of the blog. We use this ... these dates — and copies of opinions, once they are posted — at SCOTUSblog, and follow along at home just like we are.']expected sometime in June

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  , it feels quite full when more than 3 or 4 people are using it at a time ... , meaning everyone walking by has a crystal-clear view into it at night. [caption id="attachment_102806" align="alignnone" width="1000"] look at that

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  commitment? – I thought I’d explain what Greek life at MIT is like, especially as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the ... organization that encompasses the sorority side of Greek life at MIT. Panhel is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  of staying in our current major or switching majors. After 2 years at ... evident through the animation classes we have taken at MassArt, where we are at home surrounded by people that look at a beautifully animated

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  didn't really understand at your age: BOSTON IS COLD. I would also ... getting a winter coat at some point, but maybe over Thanksgiving break or ... sure to do that at some point. Also, an umbrella, a hat, gloves, a scarf

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions ... assignments. As someone with no design background at all and minimal interest in ... fifteen days. At four separate times, the TAs for the class emailed out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had ... . The sun now set at half past four. The world as I knew it was no longer ... previously conditioned to when the sun set at 7 and I went to bed at 11. Only

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself ... that if you’re bad at something at MIT, there will always be somewhere

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... to document things and ramble at a camera sometimes. I don't want to ... at night This is Not a Picture || VEDA #2 – #askMIT, career fairs, Big

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at ... not so good at and that i can usually get away with neglecting. this is ... Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT). one of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing ... IAP and am publishing my research at the Bridges Conference this summer ... (@roesbynoothername) on May 16, 2015 at 3:19pm PDT   Ellen F. ‘14, MEng ‘15 I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at ... ’t brave enough to follow through. But freshman year at MIT was also fertile ... years I’ve been at MIT, I haven’t become any less of an introvert, with

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  . I saw him the next day, at the weekly Physics Colloquium, and made a ... : Perhaps. Me: *gushing with thanks* Dumbledore: No problem at all. I sent ... nicely: “I am continually amazed at how personable the MIT professors are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and ... and making cool friends through cool friends at MIT. To give you a ... Erich's photography business. He said he was filling up terabyte drives at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel ... approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an ... experience also completes a span of organizations – in my three summers at MIT

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In ... away at it every night. I'd write essays in marathon non-stop sessions ... , you become a lot better at planning and working in teams. You gradually

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010