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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  really ever sent one of their students off to MIT, much less someone who ... test once. I cried about it and then I went to La Verdes and bought a ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  backgrounds at MIT. And it was okay that I needed longer to adjust to Boston ... to connect high school students from those backgrounds with top ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  included) need oxygen, and you can’t find much oxygen as you progress lower ... region, we didn’t need to go very deep. We simply needed to get away from ... future sources are built in the next few years, this would need to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... introduce you to my next-door neighbor, Nora '12. An aspiring limnologist ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted ... Infinite or Gala needed graphics made, I kind of just scrambled to put ... sabine![/caption] Much like the plotter project, I also meant to write an

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  needed to fulfill my HASS-Arts requirement (we’re required to take at least ... take it and also because I need to graduate....^^; So why was I told to ... last post actually, but to recap: Professor Russ Tedrake’s goal is to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  nurture,” it does add a tremendous structural asset to the growing mountain ... highlighted to them. A 2005 study showed that girls score much lower than boys ... ’s performance in activities from chess to negotiation to driving. Nor does it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  need to remember that it's okay to need help navigating sometimes. I ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  much more life to be lived outside of it. In that same vein, I know that ... 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

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... understand that people want answers and explanations, but… alas. Trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  day are not okay. When things get to be too much, it is really important ... to keep going or are scared about the present or future. A panic ... numb. A panic attack occurs when the anxiety gets too much, and can

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  home. You need to be physically present to build meaningful relationships ... were some mistakes that needed to be made, by myself, in order for those ... asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , for a burning revolution in campus spiritualism, for people to know God ... "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin ... culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  because I feel it's something you might need to hear. I'm also sharing this with you because tonight I need to hear it for myself. You see, earlier ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems ... :10, Davie was back in German class, and I, feeling much better, went to the ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Regulations, faculty from across the Institute had to vote on it — and we needed ... ’s policy-making process, creating projects to address student needs, and ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  REALLY wanted to do anything else, or had much of a conflict about their ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  or another, and so I rolled the cart along, once again sad to be moving ... contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022