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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  work on so we can get a better idea of what team we'd want to join if we ... , no glimmer or sheen of opportunity; just words on a screen. I couldn ... process of leading a project from start to finish, watching it on launch day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  . December 14th was the day. The Ultimate Day On Which I Learn Of My Rejection ... convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my ... ’t very anxious about applying because I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  some people get stuck playing the game of life on a much harder level ... . And on top of that, I had the priviledge of spending four years ... that I should have learned when I was four years old. And on top of that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I ... with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards, onions or riding bicycles (have fun looking these up). Of course, that

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  the design Jorg, the lecturer in charge of our labs, was totally on ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange ... be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that ... obtaining your residence permit and a lot of additional information on your

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... weather and put on some clothes. It's kind of mediocre outside right now; it ... of lecturing on a pre-set topic, he's answering our questions. This

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... crying” on the symptom list and the nurse got really confused and told me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  impressive model of what we wanted to build. On the day of the event... My ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is that there are always tons of opportunities to apply what you know while

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  out on my own; I took a leap of faith and moved to New York. When I ... like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in ... never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... " to come here. I'd like to take that back, because of what happened on ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... on Earth to provide very high-resolution data. It's the equivalent of ... communicators about their specialty, but am equally admiring of writers like David

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of ... actually worked on either of those things, instead of writing this blog]. # I woke up at 8:30, got out of class around 3, ate lunch on the way to chem

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  you write on both of them, but as shorter essays. Actually, I really ... revitalization of this system. It is no longer sufficient for us to stand on the ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... from Day 1 that most of my professors didn't waltz unobstructed from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... that there is very little of a safety net. On a standard multiple choice ... students try to outcompete each other on the number of units they're taking

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011