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  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  number of artistically talented people at MIT. Maybe you're a quarterback ... with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  times to several people separately, but at the end of the day it just ... school down the road at Hahvahd. That kind of thing happens a lot, too ... ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me ... of course say, “we are Americans”. But when I looked around at my ... ’t believe I was really Chinese, always looking only at the color of my skin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  green plant patches to spring up at the bases of Pocket-colonized trees ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both ... ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a ... Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has ... from Tetazoo and up five flights of stairs at tEp, where I'll be living

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... 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

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
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  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep ... networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a ... media studies, at just about 50 pages of double-spaced garamond, was the ... cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  my laptop! And most of it won’t be affected by my grade! I smirked at ... none of those are true at the moment. Between classes and the annoying ... . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  trampled in the mass of hundreds of engineers and interns champing at ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
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  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  to cross a body of water without doing any work at all. There's no ... point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
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  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number” applications that could often be appealing at first glance, but ultimately turn ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
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  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... , DDR players... Yes, students at MIT are excited about science and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates, and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  at the end of the road. I also have finally found the right balance ... family and contributing at home.  How many hours of sleep did you get last ... whenever I'm reminded of a particular friend which is pretty frequently. At

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  undergrads UROP at some point. Most of the people I know currently UROP. While ... professor’s office number, and walked in. A couple of post-docs stared at me ... 'skills' section of my resume, so it doesn't look so empty?" Other Freshman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  exploring all of DNA repair, or at least homologous repair which you can ... you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015