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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is ... brief background, I made some really close friends in Oregon. Now that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided ... learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  ... everything. Although I do live with 6 people in what is essentially a ... works in every major city I've been in, and is all around a great resource ... is with, say, 50. I've found that I can be really particular with my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that ... . Curiously, it is a byproduct of an extremely selective admission process that ... for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  I can say, at the end of the day, is that this project was just a ... Solutions In “Why is There No Water”, I’d highlighted some key qualitative ... that make dirt dirty (bacteria, bugs, decaying debris) are in a thin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I ... getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... that in real life) Guys. Science is really, really cool. It's amazing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  everything that would distract me. We had made a bet - if I didn’t get in, she ... Pi day, but w.e.) F. M. ‘17   I found out that my parents put me in a ... thought it was a medium-tier school or so. All I knew is that I didn't have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an ... , major in Biological Engineering. I kind of wanted the vibe of a less-is ... what a fair price was, so I offered $20 per card, and it seemed that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  hadn't figured out how to do it, and I left feeling like a disappointment ... really don't have that much familiarity with JS, but I do understand how it ... that MIT is bad at the humanities, but I wanted a fresh start. I didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... scribble down quotes that inspire you. You're going to change a lot in a very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  ’ve probably seen the show and know how it is. I wish I could call this a ... how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it ... mostly on lines. The picture below is an image I found a few years ago that

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any ... in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are still people who live in a grayscale world, and do not see bright red

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  work. This prompt sends a clear message that MIT is interested in ... again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few ... now, a half-century later, as the 2022–2023 application cycle is in full

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  . MIT feels a lot better now that I have this kind of confidence in myself ... ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a ... round in the magazine. Don’t give up the mission. This is a mantra Coach

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the ... I may have been accepted to MIT, but by Snively '11 That rings a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... abdomen that this one is most likely a female. They live for 3 months to 2 ... with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  bio major, right? How did I do in 7.012 (my very first biology class at ... various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my ... to get me into medical schools, but also means that I always get a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .   One thing I'm proud of is that we spend a lot of time getting ... times as possible.  I'm told that it's worked 60 times in a ... ) software is ubiquitous these days in mechanical engineering courses, a huge

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in ... , this blog is mostly about a really cool lounge, though I thought it was ... dedicated physical space. I'm thankful that there's a lounge carved out on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024