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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  with headphones on, staring at the computer screen. Perpetual state of ... . I made the long trek from Random to my advisor's office in 14N in the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  week-long visit to see my cousins/extended family in Florida and I hid in ... were like "it's 6:28." It took me way too long to figure out why that was ... school I'd applied to (except our state college), I was foolishly confident

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... -Gurion University makes this place a college town. Students are in the midst of finals ... I was at least three times. I live in the university dorms which are

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this ... about the nature of the universe and all that. I’m considering Econ

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  who built giant marble and stained-glass memorials that have long since ... article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind ... considerable challenge at other universities. I've never, ever been very

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters ... sticking around long enough to build anything solid, with some lucky exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  my landlord's. This can be very variable in degree of outrageousness ... you live off campus is so variable, there's no way to make a universal ... long as it's sustainable. Otherwise, on days when I just have half an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  and State College have both become home, though in very different ways, State College over eight years and Boston over the past three. Here are a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  responding classmate's current job situation. I also listed graduate degrees if ... MEng) Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London Ph ... 's, University of London MBBS) Medical doctor - physical medicine and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  only have one measuring reel long enough, so for future years we’ll buy ... lengths weren’t perfectly accurate, our angle wasn’t perfectly 90 degrees. A small deviation from 90 degrees at the corner leads to wildly inaccurate

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Harvey-Mudd College with students and professors from the University ... .odu.edu/vasts/  Usually Takes Place: December into the following summer with 3 Week-Long In ... invited to one of three week-long sessions at the Langley Research Center in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  the richest university in the world. Her campaign’s top priorities ... response was “I wish my head was big enough to do this”. It didn’t take long ... , privileges, and confidence. This is a long introduction, but the picture needs

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  a research lab at your local university...anything, really, as long as ... ...but this post is getting long, and I bet you get my point, which is that it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  . But compiling these steps together, to run as a state machine without ... the state machine[/caption] Technical review was at 7pm, and we worked ... mechanical work. Which is frankly the perfect realization for me. My degree

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  said "And now, the President of the United States, Barack Obama!" (not an ... conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two ... to be in the same room as the President of the United States. There was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos ... lunches...then I took a long hiatus from them till late senior year, when I ... ! 101. EARN YOUR MIT DEGREE(S)! Biology AND History! :D Been there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn ... project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and ... long day's work, Selam went home, and the next day I went out and put the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology ... was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality ... no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  high level of fat. I have nothing against fat: as long as it is properly ... days."](long story)[/annotation]. Fig. 8. Sous Vide Duck à l ... how long I’ve been cooking for. The answer is usually shorter than what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , he must also do them from a firm and unchanging state. The many ... little to be sure about in the future, both short-term and long-term. Part ... work out okay in the long-term, because things usually regress towards a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021