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  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  ’s the next rung to climb, or because they tie their sense of self-worth to ... of the burnt-out grad students I knew didn’t seem to have too strong of ... to keep the fire burning when it’s 3 am and you’re pipetting instead of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... like many parts of my life began to shift and settle into place, if only

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  : We only had 30 minutes to escape (half of what a typical escape room ... corresponding to some color). Using these color-number pairs and the colors of the xylophone, we decoded the combination lock and moved on to the rest of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  a large folder of drafts, so I had to publish the most polished piece ... from the fall semester, which itself was a sequel to three tales of junior year and three more tales of junior year. I plan to do more sketch

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... 's really exciting to be able to participate in some of the behind ... based in LA (so many Google Hangouts!) and to have my opinion valued even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... nervousness, looking for distractions, forcing yourself to pretend like there

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  methods (of communication theory or control theory, for example) to aid in ... website for Course 6 academic programs (not just limited to MEng): http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/index ... he strongly encourages you to check out a complete listing of all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go overboard and what had to stay, I switched research areas a number of times ... both of those places, but I want to start all over again with this newly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  individuals to belong to. They're the kind of awesome people who'll be up with ... lot of food and I'm kind of still in a food coma, so I'm not going to ... chopped onions while garlic and hints of ginger serenaded the brute force of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to ... major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed ... community. Most of all, I love that dorm culture enables students to find ... tightly-knit my floor culture is and how wonderful it felt to be a part of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther ... the rocks are starting to melt. A group of identical Sloan students in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five tubs (!) of free Toscanini’s through an MIT mailing list dedicated to ... one semester. The definition of midterm has also changed to include free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of ... bursts open due to its contents exceeding the capacity of its central pit ... -viable fragments, unable to form a necessary attachment to the tree and incapable of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  areas of science and deeply resent the idea of having to specialize, and ... physics prodigies since birth. I've talked to a number of them, and it doesn ... , and directly relevant to society. I figured that the importance of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  the 8K (7680×4320!!!) display in the corner to the quality of the food ... course, it was time to fly to drone. Unfortunately, half of the fun of ... out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the basement of Walker Memorial in 1960. The call letters were changed to WTBS ... consists of us whining to each other, making funny faces people can't see

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about ... near emotional meltdown in front of Logan International Airport to get me ... of the future into a terrifying one. 2 So I try to pick apart what

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four ... building the first rocket to take astronauts to Mars. Some of my classmates ... and have been able to rattle off a list of their five favorite airplanes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014