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  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... could do about it. Now, there are a lot of things that you can influence ... reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  see that I might have had a better success if instead of engineering, I ... after Luís Francisco Verges’ death, a fellowship in his name is still ... Class Supper titled “The Pin” with the tagline “I do not set my life at a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel ... . Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear ... about how you can't do this after you graduate. Worry about how you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  asked that, in this case, a disciplinary action associated with meaningful ... awareness that would scarcely have been thought of a generation ago." And, in ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... didn't have shade. In Cambridge, there are some rains that feel like a ... the pattern for ulan is, as I mentioned earlier, a brief period of rain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... display is centering an award that has historically had a massive diversity ... here do not deserve recognition but rather that in choosing to display

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split ... with men from outside. The very fact that students do not live in ... dormitory, which ensured that those phones’ installation was a good idea in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  meet back in 5 years. I propose a semi-joking plan to export organic rice to China (“guys, I’m telling you, I have a relative in this business ... note, I know that this is not really out of the question; this is not a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  due to the double factorial) Eran Ergozy = "How fun it is to work at a ... written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner ... units of my floormates but I remember a few. A Tang measured orthogonality

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... had a quiz. (Thanks Sara!) In 3.091, we have weekly quizzes that involve ... production in some way, but I was so focused on solving the problem that I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  on, so I'm not sure how reliable of a spot it is anymore. last year, it ... year that I made a playlist for when I study there...yes, I'm serious ... ="87077" /] note that I'm limited in my ability to document other study spots in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...   ... as an admissions officer is, what do MIT people do after graduating? It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... might imagine, quite a few of them! Unfortunately we do operate under some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... of success, in things not working out. Rather, I’d say, there is great

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

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  time on it? But there isn't a day that goes by or a pset that I tool in ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... amount of money I can spend in this convenience store that will keep me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of ... about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... . What a monster, right? I submitted everything in early September to the ... ? Maybe I should watch an inspirational movie. A documentary. Something in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  because how fun is that??! So, without further ado, here are the steps ... sure to build a quick little prototype that verified this would function ... that I wanted this to be a playable, hand-held game: I was going for a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025