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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  wonder how I am getting paid to do this job... I should be paying them ... excited to commission as an Officer in the United States Air Force, to have ... 't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ."]PhD[/annotation] programs.  Well, I don’t really have to make a decision until if I get in ... community back in high school, and how I hope to extend that love to the ... I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... came to America from China in 2000, having just finished second grade

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... each other instead of simply strategizing on how best to stay on top. He ... require the world to think in much broader terms. And until aliens from some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  , so as to get internships, or get in to grad school? How much will you ... have done this to get in, and doing this won’t necessarily get you in. I ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  out trying to understand how everything works and in what ways you can ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... that in engineering, it's not that difficult to design individual

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ... consider applying to American colleges in general and MIT specifically, if ... , who placed third in the world at IOI and will be arriving at MIT to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ]\tau[/latex] (the Greek letter tau, usually pronounced to rhyme with how but some ... every circle’s circumference to its diameter is exactly pi: in other words ... [/latex] gets at an even more fundamental relationship that is present in circles

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  really just in here to see how many of you will even read the post before ... enough to get in before you checked online, and your friends and family all ... it 5.03 these days) ever get shortened to "Inorgo"? I hope not, because

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

  A week in the life

  

  committee people talking about what was going to be in their fall budgets. UA ... most of the time, but the bright spot is that I get to see cool people at ... articles. You'll just have to wait until the magazine gets published to hear

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  science. Mine was the type of school in which women were encouraged to take ... surprised to see Elizabeth named GEL ‘11 class leader for next semester! In ... answer, unfortunately, in 2010. While in a cab going to the airport from

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  old are my kittens dammit" "How do you get kittens to sleep at night and ... and in exasperation had gone to stop & shop and purchased her first ... CT in the middle of the summer to pick up the kittens. Chris came w/ me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  may want to do in the future. Rule No. 1 Don't be a afraid to put ... field you are interested in, went to the grad school you are looking at ... looking at. The MIT connection is a great way to find an in. You have to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  ? how do these expectations get in the way of appreciating things for what ... goal is to make a community for students to get creative outside of ... together, ran activities, learned together, and met weekly to check in. I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... MIT150 art around campus seems to be in white. Could we have had some ... generally happy in the media lab: Har, har. Anyway, back to the matter at

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i ... 't waste their time on! how the hell did i get here? why do i have any ... discusses the sense of purgatory i feel in this post. some '22s i've spoken to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  what was covered in class and eventually i get it and i figure out how to ... 't be afraid to speak up! Lena says, in reference to my previous entry ... benefit in another...and what you're supposed to be doing at school is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005