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

  

  school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea ... . Essentially, I was trying to stop him from dropping out of college. Without ... piece of paper, society saw me as somehow qualified to be a grown up and

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

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while ... walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the ... -quarantine fatigue, to the massive number of teachers who left between 2020 and 2022

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  completely, landed on the side of my foot, and limped away while trying to play ... be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... have had tons of great opportunities to pursue this interest through MIT ... have gotten to do some of the coolest stuff: go swimming in some of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal ... ’s commitment to diversity, but they cannot tell the stories of the international ... especially important to me to understand the experiences of the immigrant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... more about hacking itself than individual hacks. I'd like to write one of ... from a line of rope that stretches from the tower on the left to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  " to come here. I'd like to take that back, because of what happened on ... of success dooms you to eternal failure. Needless to say, I wanted some ... enough, all kinds of plants seem to adopt tree form. I talked about how

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

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per ... would, I decided to use these results to predict the number of units I ... 'm headed to UC Berkeley for grad school. Of course, the data also predicts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... a few anecdotes to give you a picture of what the city is like. And

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I'm a blogger, and have gotten to know a little of the administrative side

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to ... Minor on the guitar seems to connect every stage of my life, creating a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I turned back to the boba. At the bottom of each cup, tapioca pearls clotted

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  of other college students. I also valued the chance to try living off ... table, it was convention for the cook team to gather at the base of the ... of the MIT community (but my fellow MIT students were also a delight to

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

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... , suitcases) full of paper folders back and forth from the office to read them ... to, because we know the reality that less than 1 out of every 10 will

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  the rest to follow are courtesy of the Tech photographers (who have more ... ! After the ceremony, I met up with my family and we went to a couple of ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• 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 here. It’s tempting to be nearsighted and to focus on the immediacy of ... began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I ... alive and like a human being part of society to try and pass this last ... 'm going to admit it to thousands of anonymous readers on the admissions

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all ... end: according to the author, an entire eighty percent of well ... to ride in a chariot, it was priceless to see the reactions of passers

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us ... the big interests of the lab is to figure out which genes cause neural

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007