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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling ... chalk. (If only to finally get some sleep.) We all sometimes wish we could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  get to see you here in the fall! To those of you who didn't sleep at all ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they ... medical school in Fall '12 were asked to answer a series of questions to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  , or that I have grown from it. That will take time to see though, and in ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... , in March of 2020, I was the last person to leave my wing of Next House

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  always judge harsher in hindsight, just because it’s easier to; we know how ... ” or “tenet”). In response to “how’s it going”, I sometimes respond with ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can't help but be viscerally reminded of how it all felt to me last year ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  told me to come down. So I put all my things in the locker and ran to the ... somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where ... first arrived in the US from Vietnam, I literally didn’t understand how

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it.” → I had to ... welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the ... different tables to choose from Cons outlets in weird areas can be loud

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a ... is one thing that all students admitted to MIT have in common. And that ... . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... see this word in academic memes so who knows"]how to bring that broad ... to be [annotation note="in Greek, eudaimonia. this is the standard

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  narrative -> point -> how it connects to me. In fact, this is what I use ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  in the world once you get to know us." Well, it's true. Or at least ... started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by ... by who applies and who decides to enroll. In other words, self

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  classroom, how to use power tools, how to put things in places where they ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here ... . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we work in the cleanroom to design and fabricate our own nanotechnology

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I ... . Whether you get in or not, after decisions, listen to this song (or another ... Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014