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  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... Manhattan. Makes me feel classier and older than I am. Leaves me wondering how ... eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  : What comes next? How do I prioritize the people and activities in my life ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... happy, encouraging; they will reflect the growth I've felt in the corners

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  the Green Building flicker in your peripheral vision. You can’t tell if ... Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT ... , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
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  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
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  about how you can't do this after you graduate. Worry about how you can't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... and how you ended up here. Imagine how different your life would've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the ... something funny in common that I only learn later: they attended previous

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... admitted or not, can never fully capture our deepest belief in your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... in the lab full-time doing research. Eventually I'll finish the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... failing at life. Rather, I thought that getting in would mean having access

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... nasty habit to talk in absolutes. I'm guilty of this to. They say things ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
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  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 / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  'm pretty sure I can distinctly hear Max in that cacophony of noise ... positions in SolidWorks.  Then, using Keynote's Magic Move feature, I ... designing and fabricating our product, and I'm not about to present it in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... 's been a while since I did this. Just writing. The words are clunky in my ... 's how I've felt, though: clunky, with a jumble of thoughts and fears and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old ... words, which I think means storm surge. It's in line with sigwa, a violent ... window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  how MIT was the best school in the world and that I would certainly ... they were going on and on about how cool it would be if I got in, and ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012