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

  

  student group that runs educational programs for middle and high school ... 've heard before, but not a person I think I've met. I looked them up in the ... for everyone else I emailed.[/caption] Josh replied after a few days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end ... meter! Since MIT.nano’s inception, researchers have used the space for ... : Each silicon wafer can fit 25 solar cells, so we had space left for other

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  : The admit rate for students from Wisconsin went up 2%, MIT must really want ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... scores: This pretty much sums it up: SAT Math 750-800 15% 700-740 10% 650

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

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for ... life. For those unfamiliar, cross stitching is basically textile pixel ... -stitching career! For nearly 2 years  back in 2011 I spent almost every evening and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... Pressure." You should take the time to check out all the results, but for ... for 3.5 years and from looking through the results of this survey - that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to ... document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could best predict my chances for March. I’m going to tell you now what I wish

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  Hello guys! Sorry for the super duper long hiatus :( After my final exams which ended early June, I immediately set off for some traveling (I ... for MIT students who are considering spending one or two semesters

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  'm constantly asking my fellow admissions officers and student tour guides for ... predicted for your sign or not, the pieces of advice for every sign in this post apply to all applicants, so have fun reading and don't come for me

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  juggle except for every time you lean over to pick a ball up two more fall ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even

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

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  so for the rest of my MIT career, and maybe even further beyond. I even wrote about wanting to design bridges for my application to MIT ... structures is farther up my alley than telling you what’s in them. I’m sure

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on ... choiceworthy is that which is chosen for its own sake. This may seem kind of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• 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 ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... our chairman for telling us about the ice cream when we're not permitted

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

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... , there have been many, many blog posts filled with advice for first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Agust D song 어땠을까 here; I’m not usually one for lyrics, but these ones are ... post. These letters were originally written for my blogger application for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  household was hard. For a while it was fine (up to around middle school ... knew something weird was up. Somehow the dots didn’t connect enough for ... “lifestyles” and races, so when I showed up for CPW and met real gay people and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word ... 't see you again for some time, but I thought I'd send a note anyway. It

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  frees up *significant* time. potential course road for 21E degree ... this medium has the power for real social impact, through identity ... 's, because lecture for both classes was not helpful (because of a combination

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018