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  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... stories or letters to applicants (though it is always great to practice a ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

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

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... the future. freshman fall: it's okay to drop things Perhaps best

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  research, knowledge, and exploration is linked to its "technical rigor ... and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  check. I tried to be all nonchalant about it so my mom wouldn’t see my look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... concentrate. I decided to play video games to distract myself and, as it turns

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... ability to check multiple boxes should make it easier to identify one's race ... . While I try to avoid being overly cynical, it has been my sense that very

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  submit my application? anon also pondered: is it possible to submit the ... router. Someone on Burton 4 declared loudly that it was all due to those ... how it occurred later on this week.) It's hard to get time to yourself

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the ... decided to dissect it. [caption id="attachment_92032" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while ... when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  . MEnging is not at all what I thought it would be—which isn't to say that it ... , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having ... heart, even if it wasn't a good idea, and it's hard to transition to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  wrote relate somehow to the computer or Internet...Is it a blogger ... ’ve never had froyo or do not like it. But my concern is: although froyo is ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s ... a zillion clubs (it would be indecent to say just how many) and ... lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?” “Well, this is just

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to ... we rely on technology despite its gaping holes. I don't mean to take ... might regret later on, it's - and this is a direct quote - "Making the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  unfamiliar but exhilarating feeling, experiencing what like it's like to have a ... mom is actually trying to tell me. A wave of guilt washed over me for ... Chinese," somehow it was easier to say than "wo ai ni" — "I love you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  ’t offer it. I’m lucky my family is financially stable enough for me to ... applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  to be notified about every single event on campus"]deleted it ... , not the original, otherwise i wouldn't even want to breathe on it -- but it's still SO COOL. i brought it to the entrance to fill out paperwork

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . It is tiring to feel like a foreigner everywhere. So, my world is ... administration were very open to it, which is what I think is different other ... . ‘18, once pointed out to me how unjust it is that the media often seems

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... have to write about this anyway, because it's advice that I wish I had

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two ... personal. This isn’t to say one type is better. The difference is all about ... the world). I have access to it with my Participant Harvard ID. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015