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  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  compassion as I can. You share so much of yourselves with us in the application ... .) Instead, this post is about how I, as a person, interact with that process ... my makeshift home office can be found. Hello routine, my old friend I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can ... put it in a ponytail. I’ll stare in the mirror for a moment, realize how ... , faded, green hair that was in dire need of a trim. My stylist asked me how

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got ... that “admissions officer” was a job. I hadn’t spared much thought on how ... working in admissions was nowhere on my radar. When I was in my senior year

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... (alongside tours!) I’ve embedded all the 2025 i3 videos below in case you ... includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2024 i3 videos megapost

  

   (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2024 i3 videos below in case you would ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals ... fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running ... plots in python? You do now. Don’t know how to fit data to a model? You ... in the style of an academic paper. Looking back I was very happy with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  (alongside tours!). I've embedded all the 2021 i3 videos below in case you ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  am. I don't know how I did this 2 months ago, how do you pack up ... -drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... Pauli myself. But I'm not in charge of that. I'm in charge of feeding 20

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  , look ourselves in the mirror and say, 'I'm responsible,"' Jones told her admissions colleagues. "We have to look ourselves in the eye and say, 'Am I an ... of her daughter. "When she was in sixth or seventh grade, I was every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  monologues that you can tell yourself the next time every bone and neuron in ... just can’t do it… As I'm sure you know by now, “you miss 100% of the ... happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... late, I’ve been asking Dylan R. ‘24 to put me in “email purgatory” — where I’m stuck in my current location and Dylan stares at me menacingly

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2022 i3 videos megapost

  

   (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2022 i3 videos below in case you would ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  that I was a little loud and a little awkward in high school. I spent ... sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin ... , but like, I see that you are Asian, but where exactly in Asia?” I could

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight ... Thailand in Oregon. I saw a TED talk from my current Ph.D. advisor, Professor ... I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  I still can’t process that I’ve turned in my final work for the ... much warmth from it as I can. In that position, I finally drift off to ... , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  yourself "I'm ridiculous! I can do really absurd research! I should win an Ig ... people in the room, all looking at me. I then look back down at the MC, at ... tell her how many minutes were left in each person's presentation. Here

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do i have unsolicited tips for you

  

  at MIT. I have to prove that I can do it myself. In retrospect, the ... physical MIT ID. You can get them at any kiosk. I don't understand why the ... This week, I worked as an Orientation Leader (OL) to help first year

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  sometimes, but it can also get in the way of the reasons I began writing in ... . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... among dark churning waves. In tenth grade, I entered a writing contest

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the ... underground. Instead, I was met with this as the entrance: As you can see

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011