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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  version of 6.006 to tech professionals and university students in Addis ... actually won one of the many grants we applied to, the Tau Beta Pi ... grant out of the many that we applied to or looked for. What seems linear

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... of my junior year, and I am twenty. There are so many stories I want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  questions of life and the universe). One of the great things about this ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was ... system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  University's Departments of Physics and Cell Biology. Fall 2001 to Spring ... ="aligncenter" width="2304"] This is probably one of the oldest murals on hall ... , taken by Beth D. '02, of a "hall feed" with American flag themed cupcakes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  be a part of. Then, when you apply, let your passion come through so ...  Random Hall's 40th Birthday Hack.) Birthdays are special times. Times for cakes ... anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I ... . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in ... , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of Mc

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost. We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity.”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... ..." YOU: "Uh, aren't you a premed too?" HIM: "Yeah, but I'm not one of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a ... /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , because several people in my school applied early action, and two of them ... applying to an art program rather than an institute of technology; the only ... , about two months ago. Because I’m a senior all but one of my finals were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

    Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now, with my last final of my freshman year tomorrow, I am now a computer ... me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020