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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... : What next—the Station 16 sign? There seems to be no limit to their aspirations. [The editors] would not be surprised to find the gilt

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  ," he said, before telling me to call the Johns Hopkins admissions office ... wrong. This has got to be a joke. Anger: WHY the hell would they tell me ... applied to the job!    For some people, college admissions will be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... to help the waiting suck less? No, probably not. If you ask this, we ... . Read the blogs, that's what they're for. We try to make them interesting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... lesson about trying to get projects done during the semester. It may be ... attached the legs directly to the top, they would be wobbly (especially

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... into the room (although to be honest it's hard to sneak into an eight ... to be back on the grind. I keep it lighter than usual since I want to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  be helpful to you. The rules are simple: write your own essays. That ... to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  liberal arts and technical training to be the best path for me to explore ... math and computer science—and be closer to my new lab at the Broad. So I ... —I would have never expected to be where I am. I wish the younger me worried

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  tunnels. Be confused when following the mysterious signs lead you to nowhere. Follow the signs back to see if you missed anything. Follow the signs ... if you weren't here. Be happy that you're here. Be happy that you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  criteria that will be used to make the decision. Fortunately, everything that ... institution)? If you have, I’d love to hear about it in the comments section ... about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Europe to be farmed for fur, and when the furs went out of style the nutria ... can be recalled but never relived. I am grateful to the students, the ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you ... reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  here. So, if we switch to CMS and stop taking technical classes, we'll be ... : MIT is THE place to study STEM! And we just feel that if we do stop ... have to try your best, and even if you end up with a suboptimal grade, be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  admitted is to permit the chance to be rejected. And if that chance to be ... want to be now. But I know that past-me made the best decisions that he ... out good. Hoping for the chance for dreams to be a reality. Sometimes

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... be thankful. Thanks to my coaches, who believed in me every step of the ... we really wanted was the big shiny silver trophy you get for being the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  fake, and I hate that. Maybe if I keep expelling the gloom, there will be ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... be many more somethings in the near future, now that there's a little

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  , applying to college. This college may even be MIT. But, readers, if you ... disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... . Your upperclassmen will be there to help you, and the CAPD will walk you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  found some of the Orientation events to be really meaningful. The ... think an event might be useful, go to it! Beyond the practical advice ... just how wild it is to be here, living this moment as opposed to the one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019