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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or '6' for shorter)) has been appointed as new Chancellor! This is no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions ... work needed for this year, Chris had another producer in mind--Cowboy L ... asking around about rooms in Simmons, she let us use her room for filming

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... grade. In fact, for nostalgia or for lack of more complex software, you ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in ... if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  into mere 250 words. In order for me to see what a 250 word word limit ... neglected in the county hospital for over two hours, unable to flag down a ... -Ray order, Mr. Park searched in vain for Radiology in a blinding flurry of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... medical ethics (which made for very interesting conversation), art in Boston ... excitement in it. It’s beautiful. Basically: I LOVE MIT!! Thanks for reading

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... . Also in this post, I showed my face for the first time without hiding ... parts were in one document and both caused a rollercoaster of emotions for

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

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  reserved for situations in which you are completely lost in a hallway that ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... consonant strings like 'dx' and 'dt' in permutations whose English

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... day, just a couple weeks ago, after having been in committee for 4 days ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ,000 to WTBS in exchange for the call letters. The deal worked out, WTBS ... (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who ... answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The ... yourself”. In the novel, James Gatz created and became Jay Gatsby - the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... than that, I saw my daughter smile for the first time in months. She was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  contrast, did a UROP in the same solid state physics lab for nearly his ... leave the Boston area for graduate school. I think that those two questions have the same answer. When I arrived as a freshman, I signed up for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  empty hallways looking for people to shoot. Mull over your life decisions ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry ... 't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... not think that I was a good enough candidate for MIT - my SAT scores

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  meets strict nutritional guidelines for sodium and sugar established in ... provides for MIT students, whether they live in a cook-for-yourself community ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  people who've been in a class for three weeks before realizing they weren ... you get to see the syllabi for all of the classes you're enrolled in ... in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021