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• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... and strumming a guitar like the sounds playing in my ears? What if I ... . "I'm afraid of failure," I say. Well, yes, they reply, we know. "I can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to SanLuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice ... years in admissions, I've seen students take some time before starting MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  pandemic’s fault. I forgot how good it can be to go to a place with a person and see more people, and I never knew how good it can be to be in Boston ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  . In retrospect, this might just have been because I didn't know how to ... , in my pace, and how I felt during and afterwards. This is what I ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain the context of my grades/scores, and/or provide additional information?

  On the application, there are designated spaces to provide additional context on how the pandemic or other circumstances may have disrupted your coursework, access to testing, and extracurricular activities. If you feel it
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional ... ago, I was out sick with the flu. I frankly don't know how I had lasted ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  't know, I'll go ask Yan. But if you're interested in what your 4th or maybe 5th favorite blogger is up to, I can tell you! Besides traveling (and ... surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  , can we have dinner tomorrow night? i feel like i haven't seen you all in ... much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... personal experience on the application process and some titbits on how I can

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate ... (partially so I can make everyone call me Dr. Mollie), and I just spent a great ... . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  stats for the first time was wild, but in no way was I surprised — our ... scooted over to Sloan for Managerial Finance, where I learned about how to ... -athlete: "On a weekday in the fall, I wake up at 9:30 am, eat a quick snack, then

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response ... I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... living it and participating in it. I was recently asked by my friend "Are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  working in a veterinarian office and has two older cats at home. "I've grown ... pets everywhere," Nilsson said. "I don't think there's a school in the ... 't bark, and can better fend for themselves while students are in class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa this summer; I'm interning in Cape Town through MISTI, which is both ... 's associated with moving out of Boston (potentially) forever. I can't count the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  effort I put in to make a change. How long can I hope that this time ... in the future. I can just do my best now and see where that takes me ... how much effort I put into my classes, I can't seem to get a result that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  as long as i can remember, yet i never really had time for it in high ... in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  . But Piper, you might ask, how can you possibly show me a new view of MIT ... not several thousand feet in the air staring through a camera when I ... ;   This was the first major landmark I recognized once I was in the

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to ... from any class, and I don't have any clever terms to describe how I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  in 2006. Our institutional research website says, quite specifically, that “alumni relations” are “not considered.” And I can tell you, from ... from? After a little academic archaeology, this is what I found. In an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  in the wall next to 224C. I do not know how or why it got there, but it ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... in Mollie's wacky professor quotes entry... though I guess, by itself

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005