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Blog / How to Human
This blog post is about you. yes, you.
, and no doubt some of you will be in fields I can't even describe because ... 've achieved and what you'll do in the next few years, I'm awed. Every day I can ... "I've been tooling all night." "I'm so hosed." "IHTFP." "I just -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Comfort Matters A unique application process
-- possible replacement chairs! I quickly did what any normal student would do ... smaller than I would like but is the same size as the current desks so it ... faith in the higher-ups to choose the correct chair so I made sure to let -
Blog / Life after MIT
The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!
Pederson won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1987 for figuring out how to ... received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during -
Blog / Admissions
Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions
announcing these prompts last year: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in ... to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value ... application, with 5 short-answer essay questions (I've blogged about the -
Blog / MISTI
quiet moments out in the rural English countryside
this summer, i’m living in a small, cozy house out in the medieval ... city counterpart in Cornwall. you may be wondering why i’m here. i ... , and so much more. anyways, i work in development engineering, where we -
Blog / Challenges
climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood
getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm ... follow the other path I was considering where I'd stay in Paris.MIT gave me ... . [annotation note="In the end I'm confident this was the right choice for me, but -
Blog / Academics & Research
Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies
times by people saying how pretty her hair was. I was thankfully in a less ... grapple with topics like how advertising is changing in the 21st century ... papers on pretty much whatever I'm interested in--my first paper was a five -
Blog / MIT Life
Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?
scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our ... our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of -
Blog / MIT Life
Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*
bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding ... intricacies when we approached a couple heading in the opposite direction. I ... . Hello Susan Hockfield. There, I feel a little better now. In other news -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!
acting and told him that he would be better off playing the accordion. “I ... enterprise… …and then Mr. Spock walked in, hair greyer and ears rounder than I ... Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with -
Blog / Miscellaneous
my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars
to no explanation. Feel free to argue in the comments...I'm ready to ... 'm five. 90% of things I'm learning very much can be explained in simple ... should not be the ways in which I'm learning something. It should be merely -
Blog / MIT Life
¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT
school year, and I thought it would be interesting to hear their insight as ... more valuable than ever. In the MIT dorms, you have your friends ... -speak for RAs and they are the "grown up" figures in the house. (We -
Blog / Admissions
New York, New York
I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays ... stunned by how complete the correlation was between length and score. "I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Right NOW Making Things
that will differentiate you is how hard you work." I left feeling ... made a list in my head of the things I've made in the past few months ... gentle reminder to myself. I've been deliriously happy at this school, in -
Blog / Events
Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!
videotape their cover of "Here In Your Arms" (solo by Kevin Schoenfelder, I ... , thesis projects), but I also learned about architecture in general ... for me everything I thought MIT would be, and more. The academics were -
Blog / Admissions
Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.
the local U that I take classes at in the morning). These clothes are ... until I move into Cambridge will quite possibly be the longest in my life ... passed without incident. Sitting in a chair in the student center lobby, I -
Blog / MIT Life
If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young
I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I ... Notre Dame, which is located in South Bend and in whose laboratories I -
Blog / Admissions
Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions
Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... would. Even if you don't know Holly, you may -
Blog / MIT Life
Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.
DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in