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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  program. While I have been throwing numbers into my classes when I can (I ... Every time I check my email (incredibly, only once every few days) I am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer, for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did fill the whiteboard with various drawings. I wanted something truly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  engineering can be colorful: ^from 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II.  I ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  am the one thing in life I can control.” The single most formative ... could do about it. Now, there are a lot of things that you can influence about your college applications. You can study like Hermione Granger to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  leave. I can't wait to go back and visit as a grad, and reminisce on all ... Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... "]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  you might wonder who on the other side reviews your application. I ... and advocate for students. We might be crusty, but I’d say we are warm ... might actually be pizza. And there are several places where you can read

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... hard can I work, and what am I working towards?” And college is the next

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  twenty countries on my own (I suppose if you're bored you can guess a few ... I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel ... unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  , so happy that I can experience something similar through front-end work ... and only focus on one of them, I can’t. It’s too painful. Not only that ... Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  flurry. I can’t access that mindset now. Here's what I looked like then ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  pretty cavalier attitude—it's just wings. I like wings. It can't be that ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in

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

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  counselor, service, parent, etc - I can't speak for all schools, but here ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in

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

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  happened at the same time, from shenanigans I can only hint at, to ... 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  college admissions community, and I have to say, it's something that I can ... . collectively remove grey hairs (disclaimer: I actually didn’t believe the math that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  and i can't believe this roller coaster and wow ME: omg yeah i know ... : hey ME: hey FROSH: can i have my hair dyed ME ... FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  I mentioned, can easily be replaced) then I will consider the project ... I can say, at the end of the day, is that this project was just a ... the reason I had so much passion for this project. You can also see

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we denied five years ago. He and I had emailed a bit when he was denied, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016