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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling ... from as far away as 2-4 hours walking for the market. Still more people

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... print for writing-centric high school classes like US Government and Psychology. With that said, invest in your own printer for college – might just

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  were some mistakes that needed to be made, by myself, in order for those ... LOVE to take but won't have room for. Entire departments I won't ever ... I knew that my dorm was supposed to be my home-away-from-home for four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... and meanings for things they are called “hacks” here. People who pull ... even taken to court and threatened with jail time for hacking. More

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... for, well, MIT Admissions, things didn’t go the way I’d planned. I ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... to make sure every order was fulfilled correctly during the ... entire language for a regional accent. The language we learned didn

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... 'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms ... Boston. For more about the community service and fun opportunities in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last ... , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional ... my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of

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

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in reading, travelling and backpacking along North India for two months, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  -- spots need to be freed up in order for people to move in. 2. Charlotte ... bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about ... -2025, MIT minimum wage for students is $15.00/hr. Unless otherwise specified

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... mean? Why do we have it? And what does it do for our class? When we say ... factor controlling the admissions process. Suppose, for a moment, we didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  love?  It seems that this may be the easiest question of all for ... loves the rejuvenating feeling of nature, and she loves traveling in order ... for its nerdy interests – and our president is no different. “I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  . Apparating in was no problem for the New Wizarding Order; with representatives ... family of MIT to be famous for how we treat people: famous for sympathy ... are tentatively up to for the next five years, what they are excited for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  another, except for maybe Course 8. Fuck physics. Recently, I've been reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... Internship For those of you that haven't read previous blogposts, I'm currently

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... that out of the way, I'm writing this entry for a few reasons. One ... something like a "stay tuned for my next blog entry, after graduation!" which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I ... appreciation for people like Brian Greene and Oliver Sacks, who are great ... knack for delving into scientific fields and then writing about them. If

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My ... ’t entirely true. For one, I get spooked easily. Whenever I entertained the idea

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024