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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... , then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a ... ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 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

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize ... to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... something, then try to force myself not to think about it, then fail, then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other ... it took to make these games come to life! a history WZ: Paolo was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... few extra days to submit our applications. The due date was moved to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... , I knew next to nothing about our newly inducted president until I sat with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan ... pretty quickly. I suggested doing this to CJ... [caption id

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first ... . 7:28pm: It's tough when writers have to balance their articles with

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to ... much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those ... , with unambiguous and precise meanings. But to my friends and even, to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of ... everything I did today. I think it's pretty cool to see what's changed and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The ... follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... students hail from every corner of the globe: New Zealand to New York City

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions, including the one written above. Rather than asking applicants to ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  Nowadays we seem to primarily battle problem sets and thesis snakes ... sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all

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

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... to songs I didn’t even realize I knew and admiring the outfits. The

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my ... people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017