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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for ... into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... literally live next to you. I was not on top of things and was mostly unaware ... putting on events where your friends meet each other/grow the cohesion to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I ... /technology consultant to many films, including Minority Report, The Hulk, and Æon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... research is the UROP project that I've been working on for almost two years ... original task was to see if this same logic would hold for stimulating

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• 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 ... connected them. On the door to the basement stairs I saw a poster advertising ... into a blog. Thoughts like: I staff 6.031 office hours from 7 to 8 pm on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  affinity for some subject early on that they also had access to, and could ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... on more, I thrived. I felt I was doing the things I was supposed to, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform to minimize exit time upon arrival. Always room for experimentation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... visited Caltech, but I didn't want to pay for or sit through the flight from ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  to drive with my dad on a two-lane highway, stick shift, farms on ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere

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

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... flashlights couldn’t write things down and had to rely on verbal communication ... xylophone, we decoded the combination lock and moved on to the rest of the

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... smell of the boxes I lived out of for weeks and the Junior Mint factory on ... list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... electrical architecture, or design for manufacturing. Usually focusing on ... to ride a bike for the first time. I was wobbling, even toppling over

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

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

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... to scribble here and there on my tumblr blog. But again, it was only ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that ... for my day job, I’m trying to combine my experience in biological ... Charlie walking into Willy Wonka’s factory for the first time). I started to

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• 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 ... do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions ... I really really really wanted to go to MIT. The love for that place I

  • 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

  

  young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT ... any fancy research internships or go to any summer camps; he worked for

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

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  caught on that there’s a little bit more to this picture (why would a ... , prompting inquiries into “differing cultural values” to account for the ... female identity scored an average of 3.86 on the exercise, compared to the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  revitalization of this system. It is no longer sufficient for us to stand on the ... you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... privileges to stay in the course. I actually wasn’t sure what to expect for ... “single story”, a single perspective on an issue. For China, the frame is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018