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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... the week went on, more precautions were taken. By Wednesday, instead of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  admissions process, I like helping admitted students learn about MIT before they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do here. My dad follows the blogs very closely as well and the two of us

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  communicators about their specialty, but am equally admiring of writers like David Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a ... you've never read anything by Quammen or Preston, you must. I recommend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  of food. As the legendary French chef Auguste Escoffier once said, “la ... foundation of genuine happiness. Small wonder that the U.S. has such [annotation note="Kessler, Ronald C, and Evelyn J Bromet. “The epidemiology of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  of it. So, for a while, I was a bit turned off by academia, despite ... myself a chance at grad school was bizarrely a part of my grieving process ... before at one of the parties thrown by current students and sleeping

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  role is also held by faculty who identify as women) to a part of the ... Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT ... thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  no stress—no exams, no due dates, no daunting expectation of quality work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  seemingly simple outputs of our process – admitted, waitlisted, not admitted ... vocabulary of our decision-making process greatly exceeds those three words ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry

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

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  helps clients with any step of the product design process, which could be ... Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  are up and out of bed by requiring you to place your feet on the ... ?v=ePINKAeomzA&feature=youtu.be[/embed] Cami: Web application I approached this by creating a quick breakdown of ... punishment within the appropriate tier set by the number of snoozes. Once the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context ... . When I applied, I was well aware of the fact that MIT attracts the best

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  and none of us shower ever ME: beware ME: resistance is futile ... 't know anything about 5w ME: we have a lot of cats * * * ME: hey do you ... * * * ME: [walking somewhere at night] GROUP OF FROSH: [whispering] ME

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... This past semester, I’ve been going through the grueling process that plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act

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

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  . Sometimes, we will be too far to grab the hands of those who were bashed by ... calmed by the gargantuan efforts of cooperation among the gods who control ... you just hope that by the end of it all you can juggle one or two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I ... two of the classes that I originally submitted are still on the list. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  process of leading a project from start to finish, watching it on launch day ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I ... mutate more and more as the months go by. The journey to figure out what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Modern urban design The theory of cosmic inflation, developed by ... genetics Reverse transcription, discovered by David Baltimore, founder of ... inspire the Internet - conceived of by former MIT President Vannevar Bush

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  filled theirs with their own culture. Multiply that by the dozens of teams ... judged by peers. Lilly led the presentations as a bunch of the Boston group ... opportunities to interact with the writing team. The judging process consists of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulgham Most of what I really ... this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best ... of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013