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• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our ... in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human ... the table - ways of seeing that might be unlike my own. I love how

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... join. How should I optimize my courseload to get a headstart? I actually

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  . ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009 ... about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) blew my mind, how my school was teeming with energy and diversity, how I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central ... food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave ... better. First and foremost, I'm incredibly happy with the people in my life

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into ... desperately wanted to distinguish myself in some way, but I always felt that she

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... harsh though, but considering how there are so many premeds in that class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who ... clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ” or “tenet”). In response to “how’s it going”, I sometimes respond with ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect ... there in 4 hours. There's no excuse. I made so many of these trips these ... before I left the US, I LEARNED how to make bubble tea, out of frustration

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't ... opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... crowded café or bar. Walking until I get lost and finding myself in the ... five years ago, in November 2008, when I was 16 and Max was six

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  in class. On Good Friday I have an exam. On Easter Vigil I am here. The ... -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my ... cars patrol unassumingly in the street. I talk to a girl from Tanzania

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

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  's how I was in high school. I procrastinated like you wouldn't believe, I ... fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... , biology, and mathematics—and I’ve also had to take courses in physics and ... the very start I wrote with the dual purpose of turning in and posting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the ... Boston but I am pretty sure it would not fly with campus police. But if ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... up eating his entire pound in under 2 minutes... and I had only

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

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  very good at replica plating. The first time I replica plated, in 7 ... ’s eye, in front of which I unfortunately can’t make out my sights, even ... our instincts and working with our breath. In rifle this IAP, I learned

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015