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• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  to tell your story and for us to get to know you as a three ... ). After you submit your application, you may be contacted for an interview ... about it (I will talk more about this later); it’s one way for us to get

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion ... is probably not worth ten billion dollars, so it would be better for me ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  new experience to sit on the subway for so long. We ate lunch together ... excited to try new things. For the first four semesters of MIT, this has led ... strawberries for a dollar each. It was a sweltering hot day, so we retreated to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  : Mechanical Raymond took 15.S20 Design for 3D Printing as his first foray into ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  that two people both ordered food for the event. I was worried we would ... they'd leave. I waited on some random sidewalk for another fifteen ... laughed. He was apologetic for taking so long to cut my hair, when it had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but ... things that you don't need to sign up for. I went into this IAP with no ... scheduled around psets or paid for in punted psets. One such spontaneous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of ... were going to be friends for life. i thought this was it. i thought you ... once i got out of here. that i would make you feel sorry for ever

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  Lord knows that I've beat this dead horse and milked this subject for ... I don't like for the sake of getting it? I knew of 21E, but I had my ... pursuing computer science careers? or am I thought as lesser than for not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  little clue how things were run, but was now responsible for making REX ... with several space coordinators last spring to evaluate our options for ... submitting nine events for my floor, which was more than we've done in past

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... 'd predicated a lot of my dreams for my future self on the premise of getting an ... differently for me on the train ride back, it struck me that not getting into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  's bad, if i don't program something for a while then that's bad. five ... nothing. i'm going to avoid taking any hard classes, for real. i won't take long-term commitments for clubs and stuff. and i'm not going to say, oh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... " align="aligncenter" width="1400"] apologies for handwriting[/caption] To ... Hospital, for example, [annotation note='as can also be seen on this 1950

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  bed for hours, playing games, watching sports, etc. But one not ... [annotation note='future readers, the deadline for mit rd apps was tomorrow when ... this post']writing essays,[/annotation] this is the distraction post for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ' reassurance and my own empathy for the difficulty in finding balance didn ... . Now I feel like I've known her for much longer than just a few weeks ... [annotation note="for Paige, Alyssa, Denisse and Kathleen

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  I applied for biology Ph.D. programs this past fall and interviewed ... a couple of years ago for those of you who are just now wrapping up ... "]need[/annotation] something to worry about for the future. Why did I apply to Ph.D. programs

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  had lots of leftovers for the next day too! We also made this same ... ingredient. We didn't have the red lentils that the dish called for, only ... lentils for an hour, at which point they should be squish-able. That did not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... vibrating with anticipation for the event, to hear everything he had to say. Jonny is a PhD candidate at MIT and a writer for Bojack Horseman. Bojack

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  uneasy for the past few weeks. Not bad, just weird. I've prepared for you a ... maybe it's okay for them to popcorn. When You Turn On Your Ad Blocker IRL ... note="into finity but continuing for a while in the direction of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  tea for that matter) is an absolute no for me, perhaps because I ... his assistants take us out for (free) bobas, and sadly I couldn’t make ... entirely new world underwater. If not for the vast wealth of knowledge

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you ... of New York, credit to Yuliya for the idea and inspiration) “Door ... kind of represent your home and, at least for me, they paint a mental

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018