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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  both excitement and comfort, and wraps it into a structure made of steel ... into thinking that I haven’t made it very far at all, regardless of what ... alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there ... thesis first ;) so I'll just provide a brief update of what I've been up to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... is split into two halves: "Chemistry of the Non-metallic Elements" and ... precise subject order is "not important", and each of the subjects has a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , disappeared into a large expanse of trees and shrubbery. But I wasn't too ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • 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 / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  away from another. And perhaps most importantly, what kind of person I ... this company. And of course, this isn’t even getting into the moral ... 's important, what you value) of work, and 30 minutes for your philosophy of life

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  was to "make solvers the drivers of important events". This is done ... recognizes, is part of a shift. Puzzles are still important, but the production ... parts of an [annotation note="Important adjective. Zoom is a painful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you have plenty of hard drive space, so you have no excuse. 22. Take some

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do ... one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  for a marathon has taught me the importance of sleep and nutrition ... me about the importance of focusing on the journey, and not the ... Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  of the future into a terrifying one. 2 So I try to pick apart what ... mind because it can manifest itself outside of the brain into other ... tw: extensive discussion of anxiety, panic attacks; mentions of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  To understand this post, you need two important bits of context ... into a sea of possibilities. —Robo-CJ taking an ice bath - it helps you ... Shulman. —Robo-CJ getting thrown into the deep end of a pool after learning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We ... 9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions ... least if, like me, you're a fan of both productivity hacks and science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  with the college essay. Ever walk into a shop with one of those glass ... -this-is-my-first-essay!" Although I was grateful for the work of my teachers, my essay turned into 13 ... of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  , like most of the students here, moved myself into my dorm during freshman ... became easier to lose sight of this the further I got into my studies. I ... instead of pulling us in different directions and further into the ground

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  of importance is that both “success” and “failure” will reinforce the ... . Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education"]OME[/annotation]—likely my freshman year [annotation note=" My senior year of high school, I

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... stations, two moons, one galaxy, one bowl of petunias, and one existential

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  own opinion of which ques was more important, and how to answer in viva ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016