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• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  lounging about or hanging out with friends without any sense of guilt. I ... made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... over time. I said I wasn't ambitious, anymore, that I had let go of that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  for MIT Admissions. While much of this advice is universal, YMMV1 with ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of ... narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... cancer research. As I have heard stories of friends, I have found a problem

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  Before we begin, a word of warning. This blog post is not representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is ... 'll continue to remind you of this throughout the post, but I thought I'd be up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons, human skeletons and skeletons of human-like primates, and skulls on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i ... "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets ... ="attachment_100162" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Projections of the point (x

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  theme parks host a variety of runs throughout the year.  Many are themed ... Disney World and Disney Land do an unthemed series of runs.  Disneyland ... Challenge consists of running the Disney World Half Marathon on Saturday and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters, before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole musical. expect a bad ending. hermes tells us this in one of the most upbeat

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  correctly, one of the bloggers in our meeting mentioned that they would read the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of these avid readers of the blogs, and I didn't hear much about MIT before

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please ... awesome things (including making this website)-- I'm so proud of them!) We ... want to see awesome pictures of the American Southwest and read about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  in it. It is certainly not the center of the universe.” -Joey Rafidi ... geniuses, most of us are struggling just as much you are. And, as much as I ... de-stress. Avoid the junky finals food and eat well. Take care of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  full year of university before entering MIT as a transfer. I don't know ... outside of the times we're running the shuttle, you can take a taxi (~$25 ... come late for it? as in late friday night, all of sat and leave sunday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have ... haven’t felt since the last time we did p-sets, and one fourth of my ... friends! Please come visit us at Random Hall, and come live or hang out here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In Middletown, NJ, the residents on the south side of Highway 35 look down on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  those of you who do not know me, my name is Cami and I graduated MIT in ... sake of the blogposts. I was known on the blogs for having a lot of ... moments of my life. I actually look back at my blogs pretty often - then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one of the trading company folks – “They chose an intern!?!? Which crazy ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  'm really proud of all of us for getting the hang of GitHub so quickly. It was ... As many of you know, I've been completing a seven week internship ... you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  "Columbia," "University of Maryland," or "Case Western Reserve." It's actually ... photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  done this at some point, so if you know of a blogger who already has ... Brendan, MIT students go off to do a lot of different things when they graduate. A lot of students pursue 5th year masters, some go on to industry

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006