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  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... Linn Hobbs. Though tempted by many to begin work at the State Department ... robes required to eat by candlelight), and on the right the Pepys Building

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms. ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... those knock-your-socks-off prospectives. Although Adam was by no means a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... -- once I tried to get my media out before the autoclave was done exhausting ... week to working 40 hours; while during term I'm actually limited by the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  getting by, and it feels like I’m regressing. I worry I won’t be able to get ... . I couldn’t get myself to finish the last remaining work I had due ... ,[/annotation] from a bunched up fist against my cheek, to my index brushing the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  /mobile UI is triggered by the width of your browser). The annotations are ... words, under current law, if there were other, race-neutral, methods to ... to draw your attention again to our amicus brief, filed jointly with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... freshman to junior year. It felt good to me to get good grades because good ... -year-old stop crying by sitting her on my lap and reading to her. Or more

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  to live in these places until your second year at MIT. Figure 1b ... these calculations by hand with your own underwear.) From this, we can ... (if you’re on a tablet) to see each color on its own. There is a sad

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  your experience was like mine, many people were doubting you. To you ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... ways to change your happiness: change your life, or change your mind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... smart enough and that is tied to your worth. It’s tied to your worth and ... anything and everything else, once you’re on one side you do not want to ever

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in ... home. You know everybody by name and are always trying to uplift people

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  connections, networks of people, and more. I get to keep using tools and methods ... half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  ) Prof. Egozy is amazing and you get to create cool things like your own ... , you get to build your own microscope and micro fluidic device then ... . You get to pick your own research area and dive into any topic related

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you’re

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  voice of God, urging him to quit his job and become a full-time pastor. By ... voice to be like. What if I'd get rebuked for not actually having heard ... yours? To be truly happy, then. How would I know what that felt like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... in ten-minute-long songs by Opeth to annoy me sometimes, which I ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• 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 ... I had been matched to a research group led by an intellectual hero of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  be by an MIT student, and as much as possible get a different artist ... class and present your work to thousands of people. Artist: Anika H. '26 ... background, though some of it obscured by the scientist, contains references to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  your mouth to trigger even more pain receptors), ice (which somewhat ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to ... websites over the years, some catering to niche interests and others more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020