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

  

  superintendent. As much as there were "I can get through this, I've been through ... much I can say before it gets drowned out in a pile of words. These are experiences that I can only truly share with the people I know from my hometown

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

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

  

  know where the building numbers are, you can navigate your way around MIT ... , 51, and 57, and in practice you can ignore 51 and 57 because no one ... pretty important buildings to remember because they can help you figure out

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

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... control all we can do instead is change the way we think and go about those ... figured out any more than you do. I'm working through it. But I hope you can

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  like a museum exhibition, so we can walk through it together: Big ... something no one else can hear so everyone is uncomfortable. 3DS - The ... constantly. I can never seem to hold onto one for very long, though this is the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  engineering can be colorful: ^from 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... fabulous dancer. I can't sing, or dance. So, my contribution was to wave my ... beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  amazing online calculator. It can calculate anything I've ever needed to ... marker can make tracking it down at least possible. If you have a MacBook Pro, the power cord can get trapped between the screen and the keyboard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  so forth - can we conclude that you are prepared to handle the material at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can ... , you can go to the library and check out textbooks for free. If, on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... an hour before German class; we can do whatever you'd like. Me: Let ... have to helping other people. It can be as trivial as cheering up a

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

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  't. ******************************************************************************************************************************************* As you can see by my post count, I'm new here. One of the things I ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... -academic risk-taking). You can demonstrate risk-taking with a difficult high

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... .034 but found it very enjoyable, while the opposite can be said of 6.006. IV ... ? Harvard and MIT students can cross-register for classes at the other school

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  linkage based so that hobbyists can easily build them (or something). (Click ... crystals. The colors and shapes are as pure as can be.   Above left: To me ... convenient dust cap and the rotating end can be connected to a rotary switch to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  last at MIT. Gosh kids can be mean. Unfriended them on facebook, got a ... mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... version of you that you can be. And if that place isn't the place for you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  can make the world a better place.    An inspirational image from ... back together again. It’s an opportunity that you can use to learn, grow ... pie shop owner who can bring the dead back to life, his dead childhood

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  program. While I have been throwing numbers into my classes when I can (I ... the world works. Nothing can be done without consideration for politics ... four years at MIT, but the experiences you can have abroad are also once

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

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  don’t I send her a copy. Me: *blown away by how nice people can be ... ’s right. I’ve reached out to a number of physics professors (I can't speak ... , though, that while one can't necessarily swing by a professor’s office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  application process can be very competitive, it is not inherently a competition ... the point. If they can’t talk or write about their experiences with some ... of rant. If you are wondering what my point is, it can be best summed

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  pretty cavalier attitude—it's just wings. I like wings. It can't be that ... vertical miles can your team climb? Oh-- and you're climbing between the ... , East Campus made that. Only bigger. See if you can spot it in the Bad

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... band every week. As you can see from the weekly schedule, there's a ... consists of us whining to each other, making funny faces people can't see

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most ... possible, so that you can waste hours clicking arond to random interesting ... always no. (You can direct that stuff to admissions at mit dot edu.) 5

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008