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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  .S. Armed Forces). I am fortunate enough to know all of our current transfer ... questions relating to sustainability, policy, and markets. The process forced ... students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen unique essays to all the colleges I applied to (btw - applying to 15

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... story or narrative. Since coming to MIT, I've had far less time to dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  websites. "So what do you like about compsci then, Cami?" And if I were to ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as well as the next steps, since I'm sure it's going to only transform and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  "heck, did I at least get the units right?" or use brute force to solve ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two ... broken out to reveal the night sky. The ceiling has three ceiling lights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to class, I talk to my friends, I do work, I head home, I sleep. Next day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  that took a lot of emotional energy. I was forced to: Recover from the ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Science and Engineering The Magician taps the forces of the universe to ... and Environmental Engineering to 24: Linguistics and Philosophy. There ... because [annotation note='Catchphrase from Unsong, sometimes shortened to

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

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to ... much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those ... , with unambiguous and precise meanings. But to my friends and even, to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  Writing after going to Ethiopia has always been impossible. When I was seven years old I took my first trip to Ethiopia with my family. My teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  ". They shortly put up a Caltech vs. MIT website to "keep score", although ... me. I tried to resist the temptation to actually look into this ... started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two ... to minimize exit time upon arrival. Always room for experimentation ... personal. This isn’t to say one type is better. The difference is all about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... you apply to college, but that filtered projection of an imperfect ... ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of

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

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  or academic issues forced your hand, well, that’s hard enough to admit ... can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the ... to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014