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

  

  . One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects, including Gus the Bus, a 1967 Volkswagen bus that Spencer spent five years

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

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

  

  campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... suburban New Jersey county. I applied mostly because a friend was applying ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and I didn’t have a rebellious streak beyond my accidental goth ... magic didn’t happen. MIT is not a magic wonderland. There are grades

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last ... you have before. [embed]http://youtu.be/JJMYZUh1PRQ[/embed] A week ago, I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... 's a pretty popular book. Someone made a joke, suggesting that this book ... "innovation" as their highest-weighted judging criterion. A national science

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I ... -computer interaction (HCI)". Angsting over this research was a long and arduous process that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a community member. Here I'll take the perspective of a critic, or perhaps a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I ... Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... , for example, the following hypothetical conversation: A: Why do you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• 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 such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... somewhat self-evident. When I said college was a "socializing institution", I didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most ... smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first ... realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  Wiesner: “Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to a drinking fountain. It was actually functional, with water coming out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  your application goes spiraling into a dark, anonymous vortex, and after 2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  pi reunion this summer. (Yay!) I'm currently a third-year PhD student ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student, which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008