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  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  The fact of the matter is that MIT is just plain cool. This is not an ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things ... students here absolutely LOVE music. While 75% of students participated in

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  no stress—no exams, no due dates, no daunting expectation of quality work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston ... "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges ... of time walking along its streets and pathways. Whether it was a walk

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... , albeit reasonable expectations of its applicants. Chris Peterson put it ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the ... totally go check out his blog posts, they are filled with all kinds of advice, puzzle hunt archives and artifacts of his time as an undergrad (and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... happy that they had no idea of this fact; clearly, I’m doing a decent job

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and ... -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September ... than ever before, in the form of taking five classes in my first semester

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... amount of work MIT students have. I usually respond that, while students certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  One of my favorite of MIT's 500+ student groups is called the ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... and turns red because of science I won’t get into. Now, this itself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... , but that each and every applicant has been given a lifetime's worth of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her ... me. It took me a great deal of nerve to do that, to know that if I were

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood ... thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after ... consumes your life during your senior fall of high school, applying to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor ... redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was paraphrased/inspired by one of my favorite Radiolab episodes, Colors, in which a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Amazon.com sold out of their entire stock of the Wii on the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra ... realized that it's kind of bad when Mitra blogs more frequently than I do and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the ... my laptop! And most of it won’t be affected by my grade! I smirked at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... a Game. There's plenty of other meaningful prose by other brilliant ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 7, 2014