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

  

  At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... from Day 1 that most of my professors didn't waltz unobstructed from ... feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and skating are two notable ones) but some DID stick … and with an abundance of ... art. You stitch little x’s onto a perforated piece of cloth using a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1: The Media Lab has a lot of money This manifests itself in many ways

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  's drinking water from a bottle of what was once "Cloudy Apple"* juice. *Yeah ... ." There are a bunch of different things I could (should) touch on. Why ... that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before ... different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great ... statement, transcript, 2-page resume and between 6-8 letters of recommendation

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  Content warning: mention of suicide, discussion of death. Quotes are ... going?[/caption] One I remember the dozens of things people told me about ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to ... struggling with a big decision. Writing itself, of course, is a structured way of organizing my thoughts about the big issues that I'm worried about

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  ! Here are some of my thoughts. We want you to be yourself throughout this ... an admissions committee, we desire diversity of all sorts, we don't want everyone to be the same -- part of what makes MIT exciting is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now, with my last final of my freshman year tomorrow, I am now a computer ... me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  effective. So, we should really be taking more advantage of that in robotics ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them ... complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... . Harvard has solemn portraits of old men looking smart in decorated frames

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , about two months ago. Because I’m a senior all but one of my finals were ... of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every step and dramatically improve the lives of all the people you encounter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  front of our shirts displayed our real names, but the nametags Shannon '05 stuck onto our backs displayed the name of someone else's historical ... had submitted the name. Add to that the fact that some of the people who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of ... hosed now. My classes are all different, of course, and so much else is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Paula Abdul is not African-American. She is of Syrian ... , mostly seniors. I forget the exact name of the event right now, but the point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true.[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and participating in extracurricular activities. Years of attending a school that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  -to-charm-the-opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... Scale? It's one of my favorite career fair shirts, although I'm still mad that I didn't think of the pun myself. Anyways, so a week ago, we went

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021