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• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  own learning. The way that I learn best is by actually doing things ... portfolio enough by the end of this year to get a research job in industry, which is increasingly sounding more and more ideal to me. By the end of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going ... accurate, but it is true that the work done by a chemical engineer usually ... is forming giant brown-black polymers akin to bread crust in the 250 C

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  ’s usually referred to in the in-game dialogue) is kind of confusing ... banner and potentially get new characters.  There is loads of stuff to do ... style…  Okay so part of the point of getting characters is unlocking more

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... won't learn. What's the point of taking classes to get them over with

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  was done, I decided I'd drive through Tacoma and get a sense of the town since, yes, we do get applicants from this neck of the woods, and I like ... final scene, the one with (Boston's own!) Letters to Cleo playing on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... a dozen ways to stop wanting to buy clothes all the time resonated ... , by the way, was something I acquired during an IAP program in South

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  just felt drawn to the dorm. The next few rankings were taken up by dorms ... resulting data will be construed to corroborate the idea that something is ... bloggers for not writing about this sooner.) Though this is an easy way to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that most individual entries have a relatively short half-life - that is, the ... blogger who wrote it, or the general information pages accessible by the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  Michael & me (PC to Michael, can't you tell by how nice the camera is ... portfolios at the Bay Area Maker Faire. Along the way I got to meet up with Ari ... world, who they want to become, and how to get from the former to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  track, feeling tired and dehydrated way too early into the class. By the ... possible? I made my way to the central lounge on my floor with a bunch of ... on the p-set, but there seemed to be a dispirited laziness in the way I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  ://alan-z.herokuapp.com/static/sondheim.mp3 "It Takes Two" is a song from the musical Into the Woods by ... Charlie gets stuck on the MTA (now MBTA) because he can't afford to pay the ... : the story is about two Chinese-American kids who have to go to live with

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  Harvard Bridge is pretty harsh, so the buses and trains are the way to get where you want to go. By itself, I think the T is kind of expensive, but ... is an unbelievably cool city. From the music scene to the history and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  totally unbearable. And now he doesn't always act the way he wants to act, because he wants to be recognized in the way he's used to being recognized ... "WHAT MUST I DO TO BE ACCEPTED TO MIT???" The answer is: "NOT ASK

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  biggest things I think we want to get caught up in is the number game ... is supposed to be fun; don't let the application get you even before ... breath, close your eyes, and count to ten. Applying to college is really

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  to spray-painting. Spray paint with stencils, by the way, is possibly ... You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to ... by the entire world if I did so. Arguably, this is less of a costume

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  external markers to highlight the success of one's life. Either way, I ... present in the world. That's really all there is to it. romance ... , very fortunate that this is even a choice I get to make. Two: At MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  students, by the way), so hopefully you can get another entry to this effect ... engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your ... most undergraduate curriculums is such that you're probably going to need

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  , and I go all the way to the top. There’s a lovely view of the evening ... I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center ... in my family we are cheap af. It is summertime in Denver. The ever

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  station, which is the fastest way to get to Boston or further away from it ... , and you'll get all the way to Downtown Boston and Back Bay. Travel to ... to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018