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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... , you're so heads down in your work that you hardly notice dates flying by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... .   In the movie version, they say that Stark graduated "

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  , transfer students contour the MIT community in unexpected ways. MIT transfer ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... of one of them: they're a student in[annotation note="Elements of ... such a small thing to notice, but it triggered a cascade of thoughts in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Each undergrad in MIT majors in one of [annotation note="The numbers ... arcana in the Rider–Waite Tarot. Further, the arcana begins with 0: The Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the ... off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The ... yourself”. In the novel, James Gatz created and became Jay Gatsby - the ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... may take many forms. What is it that you look for in an applicant?, some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak for all fields - publishing in human-computer interaction probably works

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011 ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio ... ever exchanged with Spencer, the day after we admitted him in March of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... just to go ahead and be honest with them (well, you should be honest in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... course, solidifying my decision that double majoring in Biology and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have ... traditions, something that I fell in love with as soon as I arrived on campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase, “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... and State College have both become home, though in very different ways ... made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013