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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read ... about how you've stood tall in the face of racism, homophobia, poverty

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  ... ^^;) A group photo from ASA Senior night Despite how involved I was in so ... communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we ... undergrad. Similar to when I left my family in Denver, I didn't realize how

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how ... observations are organized into five categories. You can read this article in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  application in, and how I felt about each activity. For example, I was musical ... was going, how I was playing in the band for the school play, and how I ... seriously. In particular, I wish I’d had that attitude against the dragon that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I ... sphere. I think it can be easy to continue in college mode, when your ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... me back in for free since I had already paid once. Anecdote 5

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  channels, about what was going on. How I had an essay due in one of my ... that I didn’t feel anything, not fear, not panic, in response. How ... intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... year, in order to 1) see what actually happened and 2) figure out what I ... [/annotation], a design class I took in the spring about translated typography

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... 'm really sorry. Errrrkk. I'm going to.. uh, yeah. Sorry. You actually can ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  how they definitely don't work like that. In fact, I didn’t belabor the ... crawled closer and closer. I had been sitting in my little call station ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... ." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I ... . I thought about how the MIT application was nothing like a job

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got ... roared in wintry fury outside. I got to brag about not going to class and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the ... pictures in the comments! I personally haven’t had a good cry yet, but when I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East

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

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... in structural engineering. I’ve taken many classes where we’ve pondered ... how modern science interacts with our current environment and I also

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  for how i did in a class, and that i would never be forced to share a ... difference in most people’s lives. i think that they can still be a good ... /classmates and that i can evaluate my performance in a subject by my own standards

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... thankful to have them. To realize that as an adult, I can choose how I ... is a gift that I can either view in one of two ways: one that I will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014