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  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  it fit right in the bottom of my suitcase, and has handles, so I don ... stability of my Mac laptop is much more valuable than any corners you might ... Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... current batch of returning students (who I’ll call “the returners” from here

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  ’s charge to the graduates is one of the most inspiring speeches I’ve watched ... TM without the structure of college to rely on is an intimidating prospect and ... you don’t enjoy just because the thought of change is scary. Ask for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... in East Campus. I like math, and writing, and coding. The trouble is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how ... was and that is the majority of his time on Avatar. Focus on three ... movements of Tai Chi while earthbending is inspired by the rooted and powerful

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  4. It's not a race, really. The final piece of advice is that MIT is ... you feel inadequate, but the reality is that the vast majority of us all finish at the end. There is a culture of academic masochism at MIT, where

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the ... some people get stuck playing the game of life on a much harder level ... all die. So do we. (Boston Globe) Of course, this one is the most

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  issue of The Tech. An excerpt from one of the obituaries is included below ... ; his was one of those characters whose memory is always the last to die ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  point is the thesis of "hookups", which occur on a spectrum. First, the ... , is very healthy--at least in college. Actually the extreme end of ... that this is actually one of the worst things about college. I hate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work ... on repeat for choreographing is probably why I’m in the top 0.005% of ... this process. One of my favorite things about research is the community

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  lines of "What is the difference between Chemistry and Chemical ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have ... of Vectors). After that, I will touch up the handle and clean the whole ... sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not ... . This is the spirit of preview weekend. It’s the spirit of MIT. But is it ... completed with excellence. At the core of what makes MIT challenging is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  reference, the undergraduate population of MIT is only 4,602, of which 1 ... course has no content., the description of which is solely “look around you. what do you see? why is the world this way? who am i?” One of my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... the pattern for ulan is, as I mentioned earlier, a brief period of rain ... . This is in some sense the ultimate subversion of pana-panahon lang. A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  took the name of the weekend much more seriously. There was a Bad Ideas ... Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  what I like? But that is the nature of life, I suppose. Every day, we are ... the kind of person I would become, a risk on how much I'd enjoy work I ... half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  that the realm of AI is much broader than just machine learning, and also ... number of times mentioned, which is the number in parentheses.    ... virtually. The teaching team is amazing, they put in so much effort, and it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020