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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible ... : follow your heart, as cheesy as it sounds. When it comes to some of your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  reunion of sorts—Thursday night, you get to say hello and catch up with ... gathered around the TV to watch. The scavenger hunt isn't just about getting things done to get the answer to the puzzle—it's one of the few

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  , Arts, and Social Sciences) Requirement the previous year. Getting to ... . Yet another way to get involved in governance at MIT is through Dorm ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at the time, but I knew that I wanted to find down-to-earth, genuine people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  nights when I didn’t even want to think about walking across campus to get ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn

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

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Electronics Lab at MIT So that's the first difference: to get the light going ... problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... have received on Sunday. We all say that it will get better, that you will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  ticket. So that was that, I'd stalk around and try to get some money shots ... are brutal). I dressed nicely and headed to lab to get some work done ... get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... a spot, unfortunately..." But you'll get used to it eventually. In ... waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I ... ’s recruitment team spends a ton of time over the summer to get everything ready

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group ... 2024 to get to know BC since the Class of 2023 might be barred from ever ... able to get BC shirts! Here's the design: [caption id="attachment_53779

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts ... Immersive Media Production), but it was lotteried and it’s difficult to get ... ’m determined to work up the motivation to get back into it, though! Killing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  sufficient to get me through secondary school and my undergraduate education. It was not enough to get me through MIT. I enrolled as a graduate ... made me admissible to MIT — I started getting things wrong in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... get from night to night, you shrug and say one to ten hours, muttering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015