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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 / 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in ... staples, and prepared culturally-resonant foods at prices that are ... milk that Daily Table bought wholesale and sold at lower margins than

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... worked. I was reasonably good at everything I did, and great at a few particular ones, at least within my state. I could [annotation note="To be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  taught at much greater depth and breadth. We learnt about the ... classes I took at MIT during my freshman and sophomore year, which mainly ... dinner held at different colleges where students need to dress in formal

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... to enroll at MIT, but I think it also applies to people thinking about ... about missing me while I was off at grad school, and now, I'm reposting

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... : I have read EVERY SINGLE CLASS DESCRIPTION for EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT AT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east ... suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing acronym. at the beginning of every academic year, the mit list visual arts

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new ... about, telling the inhabitants 'to watch '93 at 11:30.'" That evening: At half past eleven several autos drove up to the new

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... last at MIT. Gosh kids can be mean. Unfriended them on facebook, got a ... kind of felt like being rejected at times. But I also felt immense joy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  his freshman year, and has been working at Draper Labs since the ... that mean I'm twice as good at writing as you are?" Adam: "Well, you're definitely not twice as good at math!") During his summers, Adam didn't have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... pushed back a year, letting me enjoy two and a half years at East Campus ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023