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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  as an admissions officer is, what do MIT people do after graduating? It ... up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... feel like this is a good example of what most of your freshman year looks ... undergrad, there is someone who has been where you are at some point in their

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  blog is about, more abstractly, the decisions I made this year. I feel ... -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  fire and [annotation note="okay the brimstone part is more metaphorical ... paper, I was the [annotation note="Usually the last author is given to the ... is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  .   This is nothing but reassuring to me. When I was considering going ... [annotation note = "spoiler alert: this is not a thing"]sibling legacy ... ’m grateful for how supportive she is; even though she criticizes a significant

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  remember. [annotation note="perhaps this is for the better"][/annotation] i ... what real research and lab work is like!"]urop[/annotation] during ... can generally be relied on to do certain things is quite valuable as

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  those trolls of MQuinn (I wonder if he is still around). I had told you ... . It still is. Though it was mainly written for high schoolers, I found ... and presumptions. Pursue knowledge with dogged precision. Because it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  years. I think I also knew that this is a pretty big deal; I expected that ... MISTI, is BEFORE THE END OF FALL SEMESTER. Before the end of fall semester ... that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  . Professors and PSets Thing? Yea that never ended. But all it takes is a few ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... option that spans half a semester which is then followed by 18.02A which is

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  is a Putzen. Two or more people who live on Putz are also Putzen."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment ... enough. The absolute best part of making your own furniture is that you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  stated that “Every Latin-American student at the Tech is just another link ... issue of The Tech. An excerpt from one of the obituaries is included below ... ; his was one of those characters whose memory is always the last to die

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  class is hard.” You’ll probably roll your p-set-deadened eyes until only the whites show, thinking, “A class is hard? An MIT class is hard? Who else is paddling that Earth-deep cliché back and forth? Might as well

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  no pockets), but "nerdy engineers" is completely accurate. As we ... see, to be quite honest, Course 16 is not designed like many other ... success is familiar and widespread, used to describe teenage science fair

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... what I’m feeling is this quote from one of the lectures I went to during ... script, which is loosely based on the author’s experience. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that ... enough, it still is.   2. First time pulling an all-nighter. I ... don't mean this in the cutesy can-sorta-sing-but-is-just-saying-this way

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  ." I [annotation note="tEp is a co-ed fraternity that is very against ... mom is actually trying to tell me. A wave of guilt washed over me for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... , especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is ... time? I could never. But since this is my senior year, I decided to suck

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys ... real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students ... midterm seasons—college is definitely more hectic than high school for me

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  2.009 presentations were December 11th. Theme: WILD! 2.009 is a Mech ... being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of ... was originally placed on MechE, which is fitting, because I have taken

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  person and realise there is a $40 or something fee, but what else are you ... 's the Swiss you're working with, after all, and everything is ... family plan is good enough, even if that means you can't really

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018