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  ten reflections on mit

  

  are new people; in my time at MIT, I’ve been around people from the ... new people: new roommates my freshman year, new people in every club I ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in each others' arms, screamed profanities in the courtyard, maxed out the ... me into adventures that would make for great stories in front of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... disastrous dates, you’re probably still nervous: decisions come out in just two days. You’ve probably replayed every possible scenario out in your mind

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  humankind. This conviction is nothing new. In 1949, the Lewis Report, which ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Over the past week, student activists

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions where we refine our own design skills in a series of increasingly complex assignments. As someone with no design background at all and minimal interest in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an internship in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm pretty sure I was on ... I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I

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

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  N , which we just resolved. In addition, we add a new constraint that all ... (published in 2004)—this one is based on Dehn’s original proof. “A New ...  by Peter R. Cromwell (published in 1997 by Cambridge University Press in New

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  programs to explore different universities in new settings, don't cross off ... Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... why we shouldn't believe in astrology (anyone in the EAPS Department

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  offering a new dining plan, in which you are paid money in exchange for ... Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... semester, an exciting new resource called Interstellar was born! Interstellar ... their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who ... getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... 't ask me any super-detailed questions about rapid gene transcription in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  checking these channels out in your free time to learn something new that you ... Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... easier than ever to share new information with others. But despite this

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on-campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... window, curl up in blankets with something good to eat, and escape to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... strangers; stay in touch either in person (come visit us!) or online (please ... I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  1908. In 1900, he worked at General Electric in New York. Two years later ... MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017