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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  ! We reached out to ESP's art working group with the name, and we got ... staging, and getting ready to launch things on the day-of. The community ... this is chickening out. I spent the next hour or so continuing to lie on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  route Obama was going to take based on how clean the sidewalk was), but I expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  focus on myself. When I look the next word I need to type. When I care ... nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends ... friends on hall. The next day I had dinner with some friends in the area ... , and I'll be graduating. That's probably the closest I'll ever come to a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  that the school can see why someone like you would be great to have on ... 'll listen to, but you're also choosing the atmosphere you will live in and the ... apply. I started off applying to the places that seemed to have easier

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  would be interested to have somebody else take the test based on their ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were ... to gauge the different qualitative reactions from people to their test

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  to take and helping the administrators figure out how popular classes ... to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for ... people just submit one or two classes to make the deadline while they

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do ... very kindly that there was the lovely bright blue "Click Analyze to begin" prompt from Adobe Premiere over the last clip. Clearly I was too tired to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I ... ) Lawyer; former staff to House of Representatives Committee on Science ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  is the spiritual successor to on success, meaning, and time. Obviously ... ’ll get placed on, etc. Optionality: Humans tend to value the act of ... to create my own original research. I’d reach the forefront of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  impenetrable crystalline wall. Like I could tap on the glass and wave hello to ... told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... wanted me to help him decide. Over the last few weeks I've met, emailed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to those who live in villages on the other side of it. They walk or ... housing there during the week and return to their homes only on the weekends ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade

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

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  like the opportunity to talk to current students. Some alumni don’t want ... ’re female?” I took a couple of seconds to respond, and when I did I said ... point at all. Instead, I managed to deflect the conversation to things I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  intended to read this year: On the Way to a Smile and The Kids are Alright ... voices on what the time was, even if some of them got to it a little more ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... as the others. For example, almost all the people I've talked to have

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal ... Maclaurin traveled the world to recruit foreign students. Numbers prove MIT’s commitment to diversity, but they cannot tell the stories of the international

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  place to pset. There's a place on the sixth floor as well that I called ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  people who embarked on yearlong missions to South America or Africa. The ... struggled with classes to the point that the Committee on Academic Performance ... ’t have a voluntary represented on the panel. The advice voluntaries need to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... puts the onus on you to to do something about it, but it's empowering ... Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another ... to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009