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• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  most new to me in 3.096 were the power hammer, the hydraulic press, oxy ... things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the ... student in the class showed, into wavy table legs). we also learned how to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was ... need to think about work/life balance in high school because they had ... myself in a blanket, planning my super twee future apartment, eating

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  . Writing well often means “being in the flow” and if you are not there, it’s kind of like plodding uphill knee-deep in mud on a hot humid day. Who ... ’s been months now without a new post. Where to begin again? But here is

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... happy, encouraging; they will reflect the growth I've felt in the corners ... been extremely difficult, in ways that I both could and could not foresee

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  week!), I discovered new favorite places and once again ascertained that ... Street MBTA station, the Boston Common, oldest park in the country, is the ... and new, wide and narrow buildings all squeezed together. Surrounding

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  senior year in Course 7 (which is awesome! Everyone should study biology!!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  descriptions. MIT has published a new catalog every year since classes started in ... insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... long Professor Artin has been teaching algebra in MIT. It turns out he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

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

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... -100 like a gazelle in a WWF mask). Fortunately for me, he was already two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... through their lovely writing. Anastassia's post, in particular, helped give ... be many more somethings in the near future, now that there's a little

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may ... feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my best." Literally verbalize it (out-loud, in a whisper, in your head

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became familiar with. Today is hectic in part because my mind is still racing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  Nowhere, New Mexico - out on a Navajo Reservation. Did I mention that I ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  pioneer in developing new techniques to introduce foreign DNA to yeast. His ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... longer Facebook in lieu of working. Then the 133 suite made a Claymation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  join a local weaving circle back home in California, to learn a new skill ... Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025