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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  life and things, but I still need to get around to doing a last couple ... /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... to document things and ramble at a camera sometimes. I don't want to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... avoid such maulings.) So, to end on a sappy but true cliché that the ... makes you a candidate to attend MIT. Just find things you love to do, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called ... about a relevant IAP course: The time our 6.006 (Introduction to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Apparently, my face was a sight to see. So yes I'm screaming and in much ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90

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

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  v e r a n t w o r t u n g.   Simply put, I needed to realise ... ;Set up a bank account because you need to pay your rent and bills in Swiss ... the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word—a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and support needed to make it happen."]ridiculous events[/annotation]. People ... of ingredients turns into a mountain of cookies[/caption] To make a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted ... want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... student does more harm than good. This is the first year I've gotten to ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  ? the fact that i don’t have enough desk space in my room and need to work ... drawing me back to a cycle of self-blame, taking root in my head and placing ... a pass/no record grading system across the board. I have to admit that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  thoughts jumbled up. I turned off my computer as I think I needed to take a ... needed to talk to somebody. After the initial shock reaction, the only ... those little things that a freshman would possibly need and made a

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch ... was a middle-school cross country and road runner, I used to get ... were they talking to me instead of the girls who were a little faster and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  much as things to be studied for they work, but rather as elements of a ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... to get a bladesmithing club together. They wanted to use a blacksmith ... club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... backgrounds at MIT. And it was okay that I needed longer to adjust to Boston ... ’t have done coming from a small town. It took me time to realize this wasn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks ... deciding to let graduation happen without me and start a company based off of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random ... measure material properties down to the nanometer – that’s a billionth of a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  ’t get much better than a conference championship :)  [caption id ... became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... need to sleep occasionally, “Hell Week” has become my new steady

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015