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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... ’re looking for! We encourage you to seriously consider applying to Penn.” It ... —who worked in an educational sector of the United States Embassy. So after I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... email in the middle of January and the social internet looks vastly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Featured 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 ... if you know either Nisha or me in real life—even tangentially ... ; Well, it turns out that looking like twins, being from the same small

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

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... hasn’t been seen around the lab for several days in a row, he’s probably

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  course, it still happens now to an extent, but in general the future feels ... haven’t done for an extended period of time since 2016"]with my family ... It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  present for all the ups and downs of an athlete’s journey. Thanks to the ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... seniors, thank you for all you have done in the past four years to make MIT ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  start a jar of lacto-fermented sauerkraut. In Italy, in an overcast ... in the end I wished I had another week, just for the students. I stayed ... ; garlic in pan cut chicken in small pieces cook for 5-10 minutes add

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  , especially because she was looking for ways that MIT’s deep knowledge could ... "]MITHIC[/annotation], which is a platform for collaboration between the SHASS and departments in ... areas she is not an expert in. She is an example of a life-long learner

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  one-weekend program in March, but it's for middle schoolers instead ... February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... possibilities, and it took them around an hour. For Matt, Wayne, and I, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  care for every individual he encounters in the admissions process are an ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... Sadoway a run for his money in terms of pure awesomeness -- began emerging

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  really packed and then yesterday I literally just did homework in bed for ... videos to look back upon in case you were wondering what my life (vaguely) looked like in April 2015. It's going to be strange, not constantly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  a good GPA is an important factor in applying for grad schools (I ... the epic e-mail failure of po14 last spring. Look for Evan's blog about ... 'll just carry over). An article in The Tech last year actually revealed that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  commit is to "bring into danger by an irrevocable preliminary act", and in ... , like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... :37 PM: Freshman wanders into hall looking for Moji. Immediately ask if he

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  [/annotation] in half. The resulting images didn’t look too great, but at least they ... cell achieved an efficiency of 7.7%! For reference, the best ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  -experiencing the awe of “how in the world did I get in”, the hope that I had for what ... for me, and I am glad. I grew a lot here, in many ways. At the same time ... big other option i had, and i didn’t feel ready for an experience that

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023