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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can ... are around three percent of people who are completely unable to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the following categories. Some of it is excellent advice. Some of it will not make sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when

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

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT, especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It ... teachers teaching 504 classes. And two thousand is a lot of people. For

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew with together (bet you guessed that). One of the primary reasons I chose

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

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

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... Prize, alongside such distinguished visionaries as Steve Penfold of York

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to ... major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... alarm goes off after about seven hours of sleep. I hit snooze, because who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... are obviously hot, but by cooling black metal that still holds a lot of ... when you make the end of a bar thin and pointy. rivets are like double

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can’t imagine how much it would terrify me if I read this sort of thing before

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014