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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  in my head...forming the words, stringing them together like jewels on ... wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short ... , a bed spontaneously appeared in the student lounge off of the Infinite

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... (which would open a few years later in 1975 as New West Campus Houses

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer ... many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect ... there in 4 hours. There's no excuse. I made so many of these trips these last four years <333 11. Take a class during IAP - yup, in Spain too

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically ... hadn’t seen in ages. It’s an interesting combination; the beginning and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in aerospace engineering sometime in the mid-2020s.[/annotation] I’m genuinely

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... second or third or fourth petri plate with different antibiotics or food in ... very good at replica plating. The first time I replica plated, in 7

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example, rather than a near-daily burrito from Anna's Tacqueria, I have a new staple

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable ... . ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  each week you get assigned a new lab/pset. We approached both classes in ... we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or ... major too; we are interested in the storytelling and writing classes

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

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often describe their experience the same way. Even in the most difficult moments

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... videos in a playlist below. Here's a masterlist of all the vlogs, with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  . In the span of four months, I had done so many new things and met so ... So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... ="107440" image2="107439" /] Can read more about Halloween on campus in Janet

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented ... . I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did ... ’s words from the night before: “There are 12 million undocumented people in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  perpetuating a new, sneaky inegalitarianism spreading slowly in this Millenial ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells ... to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... college search process, newbies flood the boards with "chance" threads, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... prone to ants. 9:43 AM: Finding tupperware to put sugar in. 9:45 AM

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007