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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  covered leopard printed Nike 97s, long black earring, and gold chain was in ... ironed blue slacks, and a brown belt tucking in a semi-buttoned pink and ... , brown and East Asian Google and Microsoft employees while across the chasm

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  .[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and ... sings at the top of her lungs, and, yes, my daughter's happy going to ... and a hug and have her favorite chocolate chip pancakes ready. The day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a ... recruit frosh"]Frat rush[/annotation] is happening as I write this, and one ... upperclassman approached me and asked if I wanted some of a smoothie he was making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  .096: Architectural Ironwork, a class which not only counts as both 2-A credit and HASS credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice hours considerably. And I made a dragon sword! First we had some lessons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  papers I wrote) and some are from an online text, meaning they come from ... account of something else"; i.e. that which is most complete and most ... , and itself only. One might say, then, that the reason person B wants the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as graduation ticks closer and closer. Right now, I’ve decided to dip my toes into many different ponds and hope something sticks, whether it’s a graduate

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... has some administrative buildings, MIT medical, and Sloan. (Here, east ... has the name East Campus.) Then there’s north campus and northwest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some ... their experience with the dorm during REX and CPW. Watch the dorm i3 ... places at MIT and make new friends. Don’t stop at the first impression

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute and “build a better understanding between countries.” Through his ... between North and South America. … If North and South America stand together

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that has been going around tumblr and finally found its way into our corner

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while ... quiet, humble city. When I first arrived, it didn’t take but a morning and

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  admissions director McGreggor Crowley) and answered questions from ... trophies and science olympiad medals, none of which I have or have ever had ... application. "Tell us about something you do for fun." McGreggor and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... gyroscopes!). But there are certain feelings and observations, lessons and

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

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... feet. I had never snowboarded before and the last time I skiied was ... expectations about snowboarding, and I have the bruises to prove it. My left arm

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• 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…

  

  worthless Conner 3 residents, and a bloody dormwide revolution ignited when someone whipped their shirt around their head and declared, "YOU CAN TAKE ... clusters were flung through the air and UROP proposals were set ablaze as the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  denied five years ago. He and I had emailed a bit when he was denied, but I ... really nice note, and maybe an encouraging one, so I asked him if I could blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  , and geometry.) The math CI-Ms are small classes, taught almost ... combination of slide presentations and chalktalks. Sometimes there are also p ... of them and reading books and books and books about a third. My first

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Information Office located in Room 10-100, and until our recent move, 10-100 was ... occupy the following rooms: 10-100, 3-108, 3-111, 3-103, 3-007, and 3 ... our building; he ushered me in and we exchanged an awkward hello after

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022