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  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  much it used to bother you when people would say that you’re young, but ... .  Maybe, this is a better way to explain it: I am still trying to live up to ... will come as a relief to you. A realization of a goal you’ve had for half

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the projects I liked. I like to think of myself as a reflective person ... filling out a form every day, there's probably some way to solve it with ... example of this. My motivation on the project was pure: I need to make this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  thinks you need to be. The internet wants to reduce you into a pile of ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  outlet to a telephone line, a highly unusual move. Finally, there is much ... lengths to advertise itself as a place not only of rigorous academics, but ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  ’t bitten by a radioactive spider, he’s somebody who created a suit ... magazine, Technology Review. (I'm trying to track down a copy of the ... clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all ... , bring a giant stuffed animal to your exams. Everyone’s week was way better

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

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

  

  responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and ... conversation, but a badly lit selfie and a quick hug would have to do. One day we ... a "now or never" deal: my parents had wanted to make this trip after

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not ... schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... was tragic to read, and personally fascinating to me; I’ve spent a lot

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead ... learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... vibrant. I don’t know – I’m not a scientist! I have, however, taken to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... evolution, in much the same way a person goes through the Kubler-Ross model of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

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

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

  

  weekend was what I think the blogs created for people much sooner, a ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy ... protein engineering and computational biology to try to understand how a

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

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

  

  have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... around to this topic. I'm loath to write about it because I feel choosing a

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

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let ... stark contrast to mindlessly lounging on a couch, you could try taking a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... bottom left fuse does not have a tab, it has a spring. It turns out the ... created in 1945, and intentionally made available in a 600-pound, 3,000-watt

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  ambition fit. I suppose this also explains why I feel a strange need to ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  banquets or concerts. The EESA has been trying to create a bigger tutoring ... ...you'll have to wait a few years, and see! Thank you all so much for following ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018