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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... ’t believe what I was looking at. It was one of those catatonic moments, when

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... whatsoever to do with age when I couldn't stop giggling and failed miserably at ... are way too good at carving pumpkins. I don't think I've ever carved a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  this Guardian article about inventor culture at MIT, here is the Boston ... ; the Disposable Razor Wind tunnels (invented at MIT in 1896) Radar detection/navigation (perfected at MIT durign WWII) Texas Instruments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , DDR players... Yes, students at MIT are excited about science and ... at age 17, we don't expect that you've discovered a cure for Alzheimer ... read an old MIT brochure from the 1980s I discovered at a school I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  moments at MIT when I’ve felt really awesome and really, really badass (not ... very good at replica plating. The first time I replica plated, in 7.02, my professor was watching and she said, “Wow, you’re really good at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... spot at Baylor Med School), but my four days at MIT convinced me that MIT ... that a B at MIT wasn't the be-all-end-all of their med school ambitions

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters ...  have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of ... his visit, but at the same time it made me soberingly-aware of how much

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

    Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... . Following 2011’s attempt at a railroad permit, this is the second year of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around with old car parts in his backyard, Spencer spent four years at MIT working at companies like WiTricity and OtherLab, and researching at the ...  MPhil in engineering (as well as an MASt in applied mathematics) at Cambridge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... out the door. I jump on the 1 bus and get off at MIT, get coffee, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of ... , and beautiful all at the same time. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer ... intended to do Computer Engineering at Purdue, and was involved in ML ... of my first year at Wellesley, COVID, and feeling just a little out of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  roommate, Lydia K., that I was leaving. On the outside, I felt tears prick at ... beautiful blog post about being depressed and handling depression at MIT that ... into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  (Keep voting, guys! Remember, the poll closes at midnight PST on October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th ... at MIT...will it?) Melissa similarly queried: I'm coming from a school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  said 'when you look at dirt, realize that it's not really dirt.'" That ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... at a whiteboard that proclaimed two hundred dollars’ worth of chips ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a ... , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  , experiences, ideas, and people. I found overwhelming amounts of those things at ... dream. Every day made me feel like I was at a college-student summer camp. For this post, I've written up 22 anecdotes from my time at tEp. (Read

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one ... wonderfully exhilarating all at the same time. There would be hopeful, "I ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The ... our COVID test, etc. etc.. But I wasn't nervous at all. I knew how ... like. At least during the first semester. The Office of the First Year

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023