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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  knowledge to people around the world for free, it should and would. I was busy ... . I had no idea then that my own life-adventure would be so closely ... about how hard they had to work, you will glance at the other MIT grad in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  practice in problem-solving and proof-writing.  But I got more than practice: I got feedback! If I did something wrong, someone would quickly point out my mistake. If I wrote something unclear, someone would ask me

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  many of us there are, and how many people exist whose lives I never see ... is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or ... tradition.  Every freshman class has a Ring Committee, who put in tons of time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  used in solving the problem. I promise you; it's actually one of the most ... say "I'm done." So how can all this be fun? Response 1. You never do a ... in the style of Napoleon Dynamite, "SWEET." And what would a blog

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  chance to meet over the weekend when I wasn't slaving in lab, passed out on ... research for the past three years in a UROP with Professor Robert "I ... . Alicia and I were sitting in the suite one morning discussing, among other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  ’s summer in Brazil, so I brought mostly shorts and crop tops. I have not had time to open most of the books — I didn’t realize how much time I would ... the setting we’re learning about. I find myself swept up in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  subject. I would do a video on balancing creativity and expression in a ... in mind.  Still, I didn’t have an idea what the ‘issue’ would be, so I ... no closer to achieving it, I realized that I would need some

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  myself, how could I take care of two whole ears? Would I look silly? Could ... I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  would be coming this early. Thus, I ended up spending two nights in ... journey in Spain began. Over the next month, I would come to know his ... really neat that I would be learning the vocabulary for relationships in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  entire show that Valjean never sings at all. I was Javert in my high ... mutilated me recently, I posted the much-requested "before" picture in my last entry. Given the locations of our cuts, I would say that thekeri and I are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... we got from the audience were some of the most thoughtful I've heard in my years in admissions. One young woman asked a question about how our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  -Americans, but they spoke to their families in Chinese on the phone. I would just ... and family in East Asia. I can't express enough how valuable this ... scared I would lose after leaving MIT. Will teaching and traveling in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  comics, but even if I read more, I would predict Saga would still be my ... call argon) is the source of life. This is not in fact the case, and I engrave these words to describe how I came to understand the true source of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  or consider everything else i’ve written in this post. how i thought ... that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... meeting stem people. i don’t have an opinion on how correct my friend

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a ... racking. So here is the best that I have to offer 1. Take a DEEP BREATH…..In ... would like to attend in a couple of months. 2. Schedule your MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I ... freshman year: "Considering my track record in math, I figured I'd need ... important message in what I hoped were large, friendly letters." This quickly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  rod, I knew in my gut that it would not work, and I should not say yes ... I do not know if I have mentioned this on the blogs or in public, ever, but I am actually majoring in mechanical engineering. I went on a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  times like these I need to know I'm not alone in how I am feeling. I was ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me ... , and took a nap. I woke up in time to go to MIT Medical, where I saw one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021