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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited ... non-vampire schedule. Don’t be like us. It is only ok to be nocturnal ... practice exams—the emergency brain kicks in when the exam is right in front

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... something for myself. I'm still not sure this is "good." But it's beginning

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  question repeatedly: after all, MIT is primarily a technology ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school ... Rice (disclaimer: I *do* think the Rice-Baylor program is still awesome

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  advance for all the shakiness. Here is ~10 minutes from the 1 hour talk ... ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to ... my general impression of the guy was that he is sort of aloof and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  name replaced with Nora's is true. If you're still having trouble ... ) freshwater version of marine biology. This field is notably much more prevalent ... England Aquarium last spring. What's really great is that even though I have

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , being abroad is my comfort zone. Since then, I have travelled to around ... , a l√° 30 Days) – so this is essentially a dream come true. This ... being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  their conference, NEWMAC! NEWMAC is a conference including Babson, Clark ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2 ... Intercollegiate Athletics site has a long list of achievements. Meghan is a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• 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?

  

  , which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of ... why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the ... scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across ... Orientation is some ice breakers and a 90-minute safety presentation. But this is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that ... scheme of things that is your life, your undergraduate college experience

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS ... anything about fire? The thing is just hanging off of a building. It's

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  reflect. This year is not only the blogs' 10th birthday, but also the 10th ... : It's About the Match College is about much more than books and classes ... application processes – this is about the worst thing you can do when applying

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... . Fit is something with a million different meanings, highly subjective and incredibly vague. A good fit is a place where you feel completely

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  's the best advice anyone can give to you. Your application is full ... in clubs and sports and whatever else you do... the essay is the one ... connect with you on that level, here is my voice, here is who I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10 ... is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest) Baker biology genius I ... how preposterous that truly is. Two of my best friends were rejected

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don't like math and science. But MIT is also not a good place to be if you only ... , Fencing, Gilbert & Sullivan, Hillel, (okay, this is getting ridiculous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  teaching abroad"]IAP,[/annotation]when an email is sent to our dorm mailing ... placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... subconscious of campus, but it is still Someone Else's Problem. We go through all

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

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... has also been suggested that this difference in performance is in some ... objective science. And statistically speaking, he’s right. It is true that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015