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  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... opened the package later, it turned out to be two Amazon Echoes. Nothing

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible ... : follow your heart, as cheesy as it sounds. When it comes to some of your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM: "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  back up without me pressing start. I replied to emails,[annotation note ... ,[/annotation] and started sorting out spring semester things. I tried to begin this ... lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... ! i didn't really think senioritis this semester would turn out to be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down, subtracted, and then I had to walk down the hall and back as I started to shed

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT. I was devastated, but luckily, I still have many pictures to remind me of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to ... that I was working to get into MIT. If I got into MIT, I’d be happy. And

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to ... 'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... to behave in a way that scaffolds children's creative behavior. My

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  Writing after going to Ethiopia has always been impossible. When I was seven years old I took my first trip to Ethiopia with my family. My teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... Reif had dared to escape the horrors! Despite the fact that I’ve been ... excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024