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• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  to mention, I had tuned out so much of the material during lectures in ... was far too late to drop the class, and I needed it to complete my minor ... reasons, but so much of it felt like my own fault, like something I had to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... science or engineering. Then you get some who don't care so much about ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... thinks you need to be. The internet wants to reduce you into a pile of ... convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my

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

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Regulations, faculty from across the Institute had to vote on it — and we needed ... ’s policy-making process, creating projects to address student needs, and ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  and hardworking, you won’t need that perfect school to succeed. You can ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... foolish to recognize his potential. Washington rebounded from this

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

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

  

  much and get off this train only to see those lines behind me and myself ... . 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

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

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  did Joan Didion, why does anyone? Because we want to write about ... they needed to be. Now, on this airplane with ink-stains all over my ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve

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

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems ... :10, Davie was back in German class, and I, feeling much better, went to the ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  would give us), so we needed to be extra speedy to solve all the puzzles ... out that my puzzle was the last puzzle we needed to escape! So with just ... and went out to the deck to get churros instead. So much to say, I was

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  to learn as much as possible while we were filming my video. I badgered ... there to help out with whatever the most urgent needs of the production ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  complained that they really need to fix their broken app so that the other 3 ... bit, but obviously not nearly as much as I thought. We'd still like to ... in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  counterfactual world me without help wouldn't have and I don't need to have ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  bike riding under the Big Sail, which I need to remember to try when I ... fundraisers and creating petitions to re-emphasize the need for MIT to implement ... action on the issues that are important to us. We all need to step up for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  still love writing more than pretty much anything else, I don’t want to ... ...that’s much more amorphous. I think it’ll take me years to understand what I ... Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  on doesn’t matter that much. The choices you make for what to study ... anywhere, so often you don’t even need to be anywhere at any given time. My ... expectations, and connected me with the resources I would ultimately need to meet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  REALLY wanted to do anything else, or had much of a conflict about their ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  , can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much ... really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  activities that I enjoyed. Why did that have to change here? I needed to get ... blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  transitions so well that there will be no need for presenters to change slides ... especially important for a product that absolutely needs to be reliable ... ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015