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• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self

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

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats rice every night and do not dine out much; I’ve never had Indian food in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say ... also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday. Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... certainly worked hard back then, but I was never forced to engage in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... ). Here is how I went about obtaining my data: I deleted spam and emptied ... ’t let me download such a large file, and I couldn’t figure out if or how I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  . At most institutions, campus construction would be mentioned in the ... wood in the walls. Few institutions would even bother to share these ... impressive recreational work it brought forth would remain in the institutional

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• 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

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just

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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  a devastating mistake, and I'm not satisfied with how I'm doing now ... started a draft back in September about my anxiety problems. I was trying to ... place devoid of good things, but now I feel like there's too much stuff in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... Manhattan. Makes me feel classier and older than I am. Leaves me wondering how ... eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the ... pictures in the comments! I personally haven’t had a good cry yet, but when I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... in the lab full-time doing research. Eventually I'll finish the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I ... I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  . I spent days after I submitted my application pacing back and forth in ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... realize that I would've been fine going anywhere. It's not about the school

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... . “Otherwise I’d go in a heartbeat.” Hang on. I paused. Christopher Nolan makes ... -body diagrams. I had caught myself gushing sob stories to my friends about how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  nasty habit to talk in absolutes. I'm guilty of this to. They say things ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... combine them for tasty results. With this revelation in hand, I've gotten

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  (which I mention in my blogger intro). I’ve always thought Jenny was too ... least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn ... diversity of people and options here made me confront the person I was in high

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012