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  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... literally live next to you. I was not on top of things and was mostly unaware ... 't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  ) approximately how to deal with different classes of foodstuff and b) how to ... , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons I came to MIT, and I know I'm only on the first step of this path. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... wanted to take to see controls from the electrical systems point of view ... surprised to hear they had a pretty heavy course load, despite having most of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... again, now facing Cambridge. MIT is just to the left of the frame.   And

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  if I tried so I didn’t. I didn’t want to lose what little benefit of ... moment I joined the MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group to see everyone ... activities I could only dream of — I was overwhelmed trying to find my place in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... , though, I generally know the number of the building that I happen to be ... . Incomplete, but I still have an abundance of time and places left to go

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of ... percent of the class in the chat! This makes sense to me; the easier the ... . However, the proportion of positive to negative reacts didn't reflect how I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... ’m grateful to have as I begin this next chapter of my life. But I’ll let him do ... Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... makes a lot of sense because it's far easier to code something interesting ... their extra month of expertise to guide us through pitfalls when we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... of the case that was important for me to remember. Also, Jordan (from ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last

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

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  of bed simply to switch out of a class that was too early before ... trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it ... come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London ... , waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the requirements would be some sort of writing portfolio - and that it helps to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... small, compared to the identities of the people around me, once I try to ... it, which was in contrast to every one of my classmates back in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these ... yet to re-experience that level of wretchedness since coming here as a ... entrance to Killian Court is visible to the left of the Green Building. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... .2%) I also asked them to choose the most important characteristics of a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really ... uncontrollably to physically violent threats and the resignation of the university ... student unions and students of color, including MIT’s, to a sort of rallying

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... from the State House Dome transferred some night to the big dome of ... great copy of the photo, but here's what did come out: (Click to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my ... stuff, so listen up: When (if) you come to MIT, you might feel kind of ... 15% of the time as opposed to the current....50%? 'Cause as useful as

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was ... opened my eyes to the untold story of limited-English proficiency patients

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009