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• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk about it, or just be silent. Either is fine. Me: *silent* *ten minutes ... handed me a complete horse chestnut, and showed me how to open it. As I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  or so has probably had to have class in it at some point. This is because it is big, capable of housing 450 students, and as I learned from ... our minds when we think of Batman?” It extends to other areas of life--is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ’t look competitive anymore, but it was because I knew I was going to lose ... grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly ... understand now what it means to love myself. It looks like giving myself time

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  , stitched, sold, and gifted and I want to share it all but I think this is ... needle and different colors of thread. I took an instant fancy to it. Why ... copyright violation. I sold a few South Park patterns but it never amounted to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own ... participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It ... -end is everything else; full-stack refers to both front-end and back

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... have learned this semester is that they are vital to understanding how ... environment and it has been immensely beneficial for me to understand the ‘other

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and ... tablet to see each color on its own. We can see that blue is a staple ... (if you’re on a tablet) to see each color on its own. There is a sad

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don't like math and science. But MIT is also not a good place to be if you only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  things to change. I think it is this spirit of continual improvement ... entered (to my knowledge it is locked) where there are lots of miniature ... fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -ish October, each District emails or calls its Finalists to let us know that we ... parts of the process - because it forced me to think critically about my ... Stephanie Lin. Read on! <3, Hamsika --- My name is Stephanie, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . That we exist and it could not be but so. But really it is very close to ... , January 26 It is spring already, it is decided, the ground is damp & springy and the air smells like water and moss. It’s January so this is

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

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... time? I could never. But since this is my senior year, I decided to suck ... have been able to do the long multiplication in my head.) It turned

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... such a small thing to notice, but it triggered a cascade of thoughts in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  made to build more undergraduate housing (that is, East Campus), it was ... now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in ... the hall but is secondary information to saying that you live on, say

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  was finished I realized that it was also a nice nod to Course 6. Tiffany ... Killian, it started to sink in that we were really graduating and I started ... at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  to enroll at MIT, but I think it also applies to people thinking about applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... publish their correspondence. Here it is: So, mainly at this point I am very

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the ... capital to expand its underdeveloped social life. Several visionary ... , the Walker Memorial Building. Pritchett writes: [Walker] as it is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... corridor. it's actually not that long but everyone usually goes through it to get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024