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  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  expensive prep classes. The supposed reward of credit was long forgotten ... friend Nish take his scribbled-in prep books and scantrons to the beach

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Beach, CA and had thus never seen ice before coming to MIT. Anyway, after ... . However, the last scene was way, way, way too long. Basically, Edgard, Lucie

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  Ten years ago when I was a high school senior, a long-haired friendly ... begin to question why it has taken me so long to finish my Bachelors, let me assure you that I graduated with a MechE/BME degree in 2008. I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  taking classes for credit at a local university? What should they do about ... fall semester university course results along with your midterm grades ... any spring semester university courses you might be taking. Ipsen asks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  Residents Number of US states represented: 46 90% African-American 9 ... & Puerto Rico 15% Midwest & Plains States 12% Southwest & ... Distance Traveled Cambridge MA Most Represented US State California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  US Citizens & Permanent Residents Number of US states represented ... ; Plains States 12% Southwest & Mountain 10% West Coast, Alaska, & ... Represented US State California  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  can be in your HASS major, which goes a long way towards completing the second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in ... degree in that 5th year. Niraj wrote, "I have a question about choosing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  unquestioningly for a long time that I was suited, maybe even somewhat obligated, to ... author. That’s not a job. Not a career. And these reasons feel fake to me ... life” felt more “fake” than everything else, and because of that, I didn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  ... I've spent the past four years at [state university] which have been ... the university she planned to attend. She thanked me and said she hoped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  time. How long should I wait to receive confirmation that my ... work here in the United States. Am I still eligible for financial aid? If ... conducted research in physics at Washington University through a program that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  's family owned a beach house on the Oregon coast. Some weekends, they asked ... me visiting the beach house never resurfaced. For him, I did a lot ... the state, so I learned the rules and sat across from him at the board

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  state. Most prefrosh didn't have smartphones (which were quite limited at ... a master's degree. Let me tell you -- time flies. For me, the MIT ... . Regardless of what you major in, or how many degrees you leave with, or what

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree ... part of any sort of "tradition" within it, except maybe the politically-liberal-in-a-red-state

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  advice and self-help content, whether in the form of long-form blogs by ... universal fundamental properties. not knowing that I would have to memorize ... , they no longer worked in the same field as the degree they had received

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  where it would be kept and for how long) or a storage facility in Boston ... onto Long Island. [carousel image1="54673" image2="54674" image3 ... and is a member of Northeastern University's Class of 2024. Since I left

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  territory (as opposed to designing a site for a fake company, hypothetical ... designed with color! (It shouldn’t take long to notice that my design ... past April was cancelled, a month-long virtual variation (CP✱) taking its

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  is a super high-energy folk dance that originates from the Indian state ... college—I’d been dancing alone in my room for so long that I couldn ... in the next three years.    Getting into Mocha was a very long

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  long it takes most of your neighbors to drive to work. While they can be ... care about how long it takes you to drive to get a Crunchwrap Supreme ... large masses of land, where cows on drives are common, and the state

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  . It's been a goal of mine to learn how to code for a long time, but I ... for non-technical audiences. While the assignment took a long time, it ... into different states and colleges. I traveled to West Virginia for a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  what I wanted long-term. It was only after I got to MIT that I started ... tired of my own poor decision-making, which had led me to stay too long in ... . the United States, by donating the same amount, we would be making much

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022