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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to ... , the week we traditionally welcome freshmen to dorms on campus

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

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  missing out on the friend groups forming because it was taking me longer to ... absolutely no desire to be a lawyer, but the people on the team really are the ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  my feet on the pedals – right foot, left foot – and slowly started to ... can continue to build on and grow as I pursue what I want in the future ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on ... of pictures of the Stata Center to show how innovative we are. Now, as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT ... was AWESOME. do recommend. there‘s also a short video series on the ... the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  internship the summer after junior year on a chemistry textbook to study for ... beliefs. On top of the pressure I put on myself to succeed, the pressure my parents and relatives put on me to be a good role model, and the pressure to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  on more, I thrived. I felt I was doing the things I was supposed to, in ... , built on the idea that you shouldn't try to know, or at least shouldn ... to piece yourself back together, on the other side, you realize you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  you how to fix something or just hang out. The rear rack on my bike ... Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter ... the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  work until the next time you have to kick your brain on for some project ... few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of ... . You're an elite. You can't help but pat yourself on the back a little

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  . Do the things that matter to you, not just things to tick off on your ... , premeds like to say that they are different from "all the other premeds." cf ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  the other things I simply had to do. On April 5th, 2013, I presented on ... Harvard and MIT to the Museum of Science and back again on the Boston side ... given a spot on the team. In December, I moved to Cambridge, and I started

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  reading." Thus, I've decided to share my secret talent with you all in the ... , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... that applying to college is a time where you need to focus on yourself

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... .) But anyways, back to the original point of this story. It was on this ... still on the waitlist, I just want to say thank you. You've allowed us to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called ... about a relevant IAP course: The time our 6.006 (Introduction to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to ... underway, we write. We put pen to paper the old fashioned way for 15 minutes

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... connected them. On the door to the basement stairs I saw a poster advertising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my ... didn't match up to MIT standards, my grades were not the best, I had not ... do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh ... Aero/Astro department that he's one of the best undergrads to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  , once I had the opportunity to ask: we're putting a rover on Mars / trying ... the only institution in the country willing to take on this level of ... opinions on whatever I happened to be working on. The big reason our

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014