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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  Year that I didn’t know how to study. I’d never needed to in High School ... 'll listen to, but you're also choosing the atmosphere you will live in and the ... important thing to do is to get your bearings. Whether it's your dorm, the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... it's 10pm and i feel silly going to bed in case something else happens

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  wasn’t going to get accepted, I stopped being super formal in my update ... one to get in. There were two EA admits, and I don’t remember any EA ... MIT, and if you are able to get in from crafting “the perfect

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• 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 / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Friday, November 4th 11:59pm. WIN! (Also known as, do you know how to ... process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... apply to. “M.I.T.,” I replied. “Oh, M.I.T.?” she mused. “How ironic

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  himself; in Brave New World Revisited, he discusses how he believes that ... float in and out of your list of movies to watch, but you never quite get ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... shop at Newbury; we could go to Prudential and complain about how ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  across the country to join them in protests, including several school ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed ... report to our office any conduct that may result or has resulted in any

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... , making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... ’m somewhere between emotionally numb, about to cry but can’t, and in intense

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... going to do. I was going to dive in head first, I was going to take the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D-Lab, a group of courses that aims to teach how to perform engineering in ...   Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... classroom, how to use power tools, how to put things in places where they ... 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class ... to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... own opinion of which ques was more important, and how to answer in viva ... -ordinate my learning mostly from [a] Planetarium in New Delhi. Me & other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• 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