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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for ... plenty of time for both... so being slammed with opportunities and open ... friends destress through acting or dancing or running 10 miles, but for a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... . II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT ... GPA are all accurate. (note: we don't get 0.3 or 0.7 for plusses and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because ... only a sleeping bag (good for retreats or sleepovers) and had their ... 't need one for a while. When you need one, though, you will NEED ONE. So be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... -winning programming language. I didn't know what TEAL stood for, exactly. (Wait, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  list. The email asks for applications for the Next House[annotation note ... , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so ... recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  his final paper for STS.050 (The History of MIT), about the founding of ... administrators saw that the introduction of dormitories would allow for the ... effectively than before. The move to Cambridge allowed for the construction of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I ... worship team for this event and practiced for like 20 hours leading up to ... students even come from their college to MIT regularly to join us for Cru

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least ... want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  carry boxes to fighting for our friends who weren’t being granted ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... level used their platforms to advocate for others and to make sure as many

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more ... New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students ... , waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the

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

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... studying for their bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD. The vast majority of the students complete their army service (2 years for women, 3 for men) and even

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores ... customized equations for about 1,500 schools that it developed using the ... ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  discovered these, for better or for worse, but I'm sure that most have not ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... for MIT "hooks" and that there have been other threads asking "Is it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal-breakers (like a bunch of D's, for example). Assuming you're competitive, your application is then read by a primary reader who will summarize it at length for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  happily sleep for longer.I  never pulled an all-nighter during my time at ... late.  What is something that you take for granted?    Bryan: I ... them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... together my intense curiosity for biology with my love for math! 2. What ... , was personality-altering for me. In my math and CS classes, we talked

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... IAP, I was a teaching assistant for the very first time. Elizabeth ... is part of why my vlogging experiment for the Admissions Blogs is so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... neighbors couldn’t hear us and mistake our four person party for a 1AM rager ... ’d called home for so long. The thought remained in the back of my head until

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

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP ... lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for ... then waiting 40-55 minutes for your final product. It is about knowing a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019