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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... back to visit a few times, and every time it's been a blast. Most ... best thing to do about it. Talking it over with Dave and a friend of mine

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... . No one wants to talk about it, and the less you talk about it, the more ... seen, really seen. There is no shame in allowing yourself to be seen, in

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this ... to tell you all about it, but I can't just yet. Very soon though....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to

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

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  , but you really need to realize how cool it is. Talking to some of my ... to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... know it as "the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried." Granted that Jim

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... three essays this term that it was highly susceptible to procrastination ... Engineering Problem Solving -- essentially Intro to Java) -- and it wasn't even

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old ... rain cloud above your head persists. It's never enough to be unbearable ... school year due to typhoons. It was just something that happened. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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

  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, MEng '26
  • January 12, 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 / 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

  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

  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