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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  a zillion clubs (it would be indecent to say just how many) and ... lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... poems you write in middle to high school years when you have feelings. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... stems from. I never thought that failing to get into MIT would mean

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... background science too quickly. Trying to please everyone here. (Here. In ... that in real life) Guys. Science is really, really cool. It's amazing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  to lose yourself in. oh, you're losing sight, you're losing touch all these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  keeping me from getting too excited about ceremonies in general. After four ... to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... . Every senior gets four tickets to give to friends or family for graduation

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I ... sixteen positions, varying the current from 0mA to 150mA in 10mA steps

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh ... gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... ’t come to MIT to relax or even to hang out. I came here to learn, and in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... Jesus' three-day decease. He pauses to let us feel the in-between. We are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  in Constantinople.” Alas, Nicolas’ friends never got to visit. Nicolas ... given out to any MIT “graduate student conducting work in the field of the ... Rico to see how “knowledge, expertise, practices, and corruption

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... tallest building in Cambridge, at 20 stories tall). The challenge: how many

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  love how prompt 16 directs the student to engage in meaningful self ... to share how their goals intersect with MIT in the longer-term, past ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  have learned this semester is that they are vital to understanding how ... have) into perspective and help you define what you want to do in an ever ... the campus surrounding 77 Mass Ave, but instead immersed in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011