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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  and the Sorcerer’s Stone to reread it, after reading a particularly ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and ... tablet to see each color on its own. We can see that blue is a staple

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  difficult but still worth doing. MIT made it possible for me to run the ... to improve. It is possible to overtrain your brain as much as you can ... wave and a corral. I'm wave 4, corral 4. It used to bother me that we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  ) to make the best project iterations possible. Some major takeaways ... hesitated mightily. But she convinced me to give it a shot because most ... to learn as much as possible while we were filming my video. I badgered

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... context. We believe it is crucial for the successful future of our world to ... how we do it in our specific professional context.']admitted students to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  disbeliever in writers block, since i think it’s possible to put yourself in a ... next house. it felt good to finally be earning my own money, and spend my ... everybody seemed to know each other and was doing better than me. it took a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  definitely still want to help people, but I’m not finding it all quite as ... I going to study (!!!?!?!?).” After several months of reading ... everything to do with economic inequalities and social hierarchies. It’s a lot

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  all born, and it's after 1991. Please follow unnamed ... ending!)(It ends with me losing all my toes.) I wanted to pass on some ... to actively put yourself out of your comfort zone as often as possible

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... Joints to Bending.” He had just turned twenty! After graduation, Nicolas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  many underclassmen as possible about it to start a mini-revolution in the ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... a Thing I think it’s somewhat silly to contend that there are

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule ... , I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the ... character traits made it difficult for me not to negate. It's easy, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across ... . Night. It’s gotten to the point where I believe I am developing tendonitis ... a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  this provides some insight on what it's like to take 6.08 at MIT!! The ... .08, after Raymond and Aiden had convinced me that I should just do it because it was going to be fun. Originally, I was pretty hesitant, seeing as I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... waits in the hospital, unable to obtain assistance. It is possible that a ... essay (500-1000 words), it definitely doesn't apply completely to the new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  who made it possible for me to do this. My landlady for giving me the ... outside. It presents new conveniences, given the fact that I just have to go ... challenges keep me grounded too. If it's raining, I can't lift, and I have to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  simply wasn’t enough time to come to terms with it.  It was hard. All of it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... exceptions to simply trying to spend as much time with one another as possible

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  Around MIT, where it is instead attributed to Anonymous: This was the ... . Things started getting named after it, like this 2009 teaching guide called ... twice, I’m obligated to mention that it stopped getting published 2011

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  offer it. That can be a painful realization to confront, especially if a ... render judgment on you? You know what you have to offer. It’s not worth ... it to yourself to go somewhere that recognizes your potential and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is ... , Colin T. ’23, taught the class, and when I talked to him after the program ... them, and how much fun it was. No one bothered explaining to me, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It’s ... I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020