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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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are ... -directors was Matt B., who is in fact not affiliated with MIT beyond ESP. We run ... -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015 ... spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... cap-and-gown thing with the 2018s in june. as far as endings go, the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... . In my experience, individuals from multiracial backgrounds resented ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have no problem with polo shirts, and in fact own several) Every Monday

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... Points full of of photos that look like they were used in MIT admissions brochures—picturesque skylines, happy smiling students in various spots around

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• 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 ... in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math

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

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  great suggestions, but one in particular caught my attention, in response ... consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... this year's CPW. In the 9 years between these posts, there were dozens of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 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

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... when the time came, because who wouldn't be? My usual defense in this ... , so I had 'em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014