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  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  related fears of the water, of too much work, of being overwhelmed. I came ... point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  , and overall it is just a remarkably slow journey down this branch of the ... ="attachment_59021" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] the Domino's is just out of frame ... the failure of the Edsel, which is mentioned in the song We Didn’t Start

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part ... around them. The absolute worst part of this job is the fact that there are ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  end of the world. Even if you don't get into MIT, there is some place ... the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to

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

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  experiences at pretty much any university. The funny thing is, individually ... took this much time off. I did, however, notice that most of the other ... happened to be the chair of MIT’s Biological Engineering department and is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  much, kind, mysterious friend-when-I-needed-one.) Over the course of the ... of power at the intersection of fields. It is valuable to be able to be ... those junctions. The rest of this blog post is my final paper, which from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I ... is a weird combination of personality traits.  Anyways, I started the ... intermediate grasp of the language I have.  I don’t think this is an unhealthy

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• 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 enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in

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

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

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... straight from the mouth of people living there. MIT seems much more real than ... the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  some pretty desperate courses of action, such as “What is the minimum ... since there is no chance that knowing the time complexity of the Bellman ... aspirations that led me here. The real value of search algorithms is not in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of ... point of coming out is to try and be the person you truly are, and ... . Much of the discussion focused on the challenges queer youth face

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  is only the latest part of its existence, and I'm missing so much ... was, and still is, the room of floorpi's Graduate Resident Advisor, or ... ="aligncenter" width="2304"] This is probably one of the oldest murals on hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Downtown Boston are real because “much of the Haymarket produce is what the ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... do, and Chinatown is awesome for that. My memories of the district

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  passed away in the line of duty. A friend of mine, who is also a friend of ... the message of kindness is the most crucial thing, because once it ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the ... side. The entire digestive system is around three times the length of the ... discretion.[/caption] Now the rest of this post will contain detailed

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is ... into MIT. but i think the trick is to define what the "life" part of ... simply do not have the energy to do so. here is some of what i have

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  life. This is one of the reasons it's such a difficult choice, but I ... love" is never the only consideration, as much as your teachers and ... particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to

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

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... protecting covering. The paper itself looked much like the pages of the ... honest, the other one is getting kind of full.

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has ... fireplace fifty years down the line. As have many, I've adopted the mantra of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013