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• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT ... decided to keep it for this month. Except for getting food caught in it, it ... "last word" in transportation. He had originally told his coworkers to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  applying to, you can also get in touch with your direct regional ... World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... reviewing applications, our first duty is to try to understand the world in

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move-in ... here in Random. Pre Dorm Assignment Moments after I was admitted to MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  ." I could get all linguisticy about how meaning is not conveyed just ... , but if you're in a frosh double, you have to vacate it for next year ... lives and vulnerable in twice as many ways. And the feeling is so new

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... still Internet though. We trickled in to Peru over the course of several ... New York to Boston thanks to this). But, that afternoon, several of us

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  that you are feeling right now. As you get through the day, I'd like to remind you to listen to the world around you. To the rhythm in your footsteps. To the breezes's soft hum. To the anticipation in silence. Because

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  person In other words, MIT wants to see from your application that you ... personality and are relevant to the question. Think about if and how the ... how you group words. There’s a certain power in a sentence that is more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  me "how did you get into walking?" The first answer that comes to my ... take in the city and surrounding areas and to get out of the Cambridge ... in terms of walking and public transit; it helps me get from point A to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  -die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get ... lot of time worrying about how I’m going to survive in a professional ... never show up on a resume or in a job interview. I’m trying to learn how

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  will also talk about in a later post). right now, i just want to talk about how much i miss MIT. i spent junior fall in a very weird state of ... of sorts.  i was more conscious of trying to get done with some of my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  ’t believe it! MIT is like this entirely new planet in which I am yet to ... , I expected to get lost at some point. Everything is so new! Psets ... I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  , while shedding some light on how he found his amazing UROP, why he came to ... studies on the bench top and in vivo animal experiments. M: How did you ... third UROPs, offers were made to me unexpectedly in casual conversations

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  't get in it's likely an issue of space." Tomorrow's a new day. (Lunch ... committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in ... . The group we admit in the next few days is going to change civilization

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  very least i’ll get a better sense of what it’s like to work in the space ... how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... new york, which i was interested in because most of my friends will be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  ~. In a way, it feels like a dream come true because I’m finally getting ... (you can see this in the right). It was just so annoying to work with ... picture I used, a blurry shot of cars in traffic, was hard to paint. Anyways

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , taught me how to play Guitar Hero in Simmons, which isn’t Smash in ... settle in to my new apartment, putting up posters and hauling empty ... :30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  . this means nothing. i did, however, get to both play in the snow with my ... grateful i am to have found a family in them [caption id="attachment_49048 ... books in my bedroom prompted me to pick one up again; i started rereading

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  all of New Jersey's high schools in 2008, South ranked 92 out of 316 ... mom couldn't explain the rationale for this discrepancy to me in the 7th ... side of town getting everything first. New athletics uniforms, fancy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  't get a PhD in engineering, though, unless you wanted to become a ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... ever get into MIT. As we were gossiping about people with whom we went to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  , whatever. Anyway, I want to know - how hard is MIT? Because I keep hearing it ... think it's kind of hard. OH, CHRIST. I HAVE NO CHANCE OF GETTING IN." (I ... .) In response to all of these comments, I'd like to deliver a poorly

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009