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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... endeavors. She is proud of MIT and how it can provide real solutions to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun and decided to see how long Milk could last. Either way, Milk was let

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... interesting class in that my coteacher, Carl S. ’23, didn’t know how to speak

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the ... the year in 6.131, students have just finished working late nights to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... out little scenarios in my head about ways to react, or how my friends ... hole in the space-time continuum just to see how you fared this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  't know how to run a company, but he also really lucked out in that it seems ... saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... conference in the morning. Then we all realized that he was here to basically

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... questions about what they wanted to do in life and had as many doubts and ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  this particular topic. She is going to guide me in how to make circuits ... not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four ... sure liked to get in my food if I wasn't attending to it. One morning, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... interested in airplanes than spacecraft. Three years ago, I planned to graduate ... -year-old high school senior planning to graduate and major in computer science at

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us ... research and development office in Cambridge. Adam is the go-to guy for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  weekend to be over. Back in 2011, my host’s neighbor was an aerospace engineering major. Given my interest in the major I was curious to hear about ... 's possible and common to be so deep in piles of work that you will NOT be able

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be ... want to do when they get out. It means that the MISTI kids are precisely

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in ... how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012