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  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on ... Confidential at some point and thought the idea of a bunch of competitive people ... Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Contents 1. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Women at MIT (1994) 2. MIT: The ... . Technology 1934 1. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Women at MIT (1994) 28 mins ... social challenges at MIT. The students and researchers in this video share

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The ... . Running any of ESP's programs at our thousand student scale would be ... made of layers that change at different rates, from furniture that can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  white striped button down. I waited in line at Cava next to the white, brown and East Asian Google and Microsoft employees while across the chasm ... think what they want when they look at me and spending my energy appeasing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... made, feat. Robby circa early 2011. wow. Amazing (at that point I hadn ... somewhat better at the design software I was using and procrastinated on my

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... our family history, which is still sitting in my Google Drive somewhere ... my life--school was hard, sleep was not happening, UROP-ing at the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life ... to take 8.02. Everyone who works at MIT is expected to innovate, to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  actually one of the first people I met at CPW. He struck me as somewhat ... actually obsessed with purple which puts us at very opposite ends of the same ... later—[annotation note="i’m usually good at remembering random facts about

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  will dance anywhere at any time. Whether it’s at a party, a supermarket in line, my room at 3am, or even at work during selection committee ... trait. Regardless, I can guarantee you that if you see me on campus, at

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... NASA. At the same time, my life ambitions have shifted dramatically over

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... mind I must have gained in the past couple of weeks, cringed at some of my essays. To one of them asking why I wanted to be at Penn, I had

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  ungestalt, like looking at all the pieces and not seeing how they fit together, like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... my email on every Google Form that caught my fancy. The Assassins Guild

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

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  in work. Incidentally, hosed has been in use since at least 1996, based ... shot at the moon. You don't know what you're going to get. You just know ... of money. —Robo-CJ getting a job at a computer company. You get to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... forgetting) came and hung out at MIT, and we shared testimonies from each ... , BANANAS (Believers at New and Next and Simmons), and even one dedicated for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at ... state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger ... was better than me at math and Japanese and writing and quiz bowl and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  eating upperclassman-cooked pancakes with too much syrup at four in the morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all ... to hang out here. Below are the events happening at Random this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... nice height Cons creepy lighting on higher floors at night second ... from Joonho's blog "places at mit," which has much prettier pictures and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once ... B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at ... quarter of our alums!!"]thirty-four bloggers[/annotation] are all at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  through their class. I labeled up to three categories per reason.  At ... you will take at MIT. so much fun. i felt like a little kid again ... .091 helped me discover my interest in course 3! At the end of each class we

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  , I have had to cross the Charles at some point. Each of them are so ... that bridges represent a central tenet of my life, at least my education ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020