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  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  available, however, the edge of the Long Wharf is a perfect place to sit and ... -watching! There is plenty to look at besides passing humans as well, like the old ... do, and Chinatown is awesome for that. My memories of the district

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  look lost, just inform them that Harry and Ron have to take the Ring to ... makes sense?), and is a great segue to my last procrastination tip, which ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ; that I was a fraud from the beginning. In reality, there were a lot of ... opinion that 2.005 is a horrible way to teach anyone anything. My failure ... .  Four years of all that stress, and I emerge into the real world to find

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  , the Marlar Lounge is a second home to me - I go there every week for the ... 's right, I think. There are infinite ways to help the world and a finite ... , and directly relevant to society. I figured that the importance of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... the alley below my window and swearing angrily. I went to lab, had a ... to see other faces. There’s something about seeing the same people

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  to: “Why?”. At first I thought, “Tsk, the answer to that is both ... back home to Georgia, a short trip to Iceland (don’t ask), and a cross-country ... met a pair of South African postgrads and went with them to the oldest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to ... my general impression of the guy was that he is sort of aloof and unaware of the power and influence that he holds and that he has a lot of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  the gist is that there are feeder puzzles, and there are meta puzzles. A ... , and why this post is in the same series. Because this is a "Mystery Hunt ... solve the puzzle because the puzzle is there, and that's what puzzles are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you ... sun starts rising and stops again. There is a sketchy f---er in the EC ... again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  from yourself. That feeling, that feeling of growth is a new one. And it ... to have a system that's working for me now and impressing myself with ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  :00 meeting. The chance to eat a real bagel was a treat, and a must for me every ... the chance to meet a lot of students and answer their questions about ... Les and Tom Nacinovich, who is the EC assigned to Regis. At most of the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the ... and joined a long line trying to clear customs. The air seemed unusually

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  way of thinking assumes that there is a dichotomy between diversity and ... is one thing that all students admitted to MIT have in common. And that ... succeeded somewhere else. Everybody loses. And I hate to lose. By the same

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  people you need to impress, but the one that is often forgotten and hardest ... have a feeling that the scariest dragons that you and I will face in our ... for the RA round, I’d like to share a bit about my mindset and what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  CHI PLAY. The SGDC is a 'track' within the CHI PLAY conference, and I ... virtual, and one is a physical robot. Basically, what I was saying in that ... something is that nobody actually compared that robot to a similar virtual

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... silly. The truth is, and maybe you can't see this yet, it's going to be ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  , however, that being the last person to leave is always difficult. And, sure, there ... to pack and clean up, and the realization that I had a lot more stuff ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... of what cards you’ll be dealt, and to carry on from there. And that is ... admitted is to permit the chance to be rejected. And if that chance to be

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply ... parents may tell you. There is never only one thing to consider, and this is ... the same things over and over again from year to year, you are the one

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

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  them, and asked me to follow her to a room. She became the therapist I ... to my room and feel like there was a sinkhole in my stomach. It was ... wrong, or what to do about it, and that scared me. I was at a complete

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017