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  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 / 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since. If you've never met the Milk, then you should read Vincent's biography ... somehow surviving the treacherous Boston weather. Being an MIT student, he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO ... whatever data we do release. If we released admit rate by state, it would be: The ... applicants from Wisconsin! When the reality would be much closer to: we took

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

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

  

  be older and you’ll say goodbye to the home you’ve worked so hard to ... ’ll forget about being assigned line-leader and accidentally going to the ... would be horrifying. Are we allowed to believe things because the opposite

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  silly. The truth is, and maybe you can't see this yet, it's going to be okay. It's going to be better than okay. However, if you're anything ... exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  clothes and go over to the Green Building when I checked my email (If you ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011