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• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in ... early, so I took an internship opportunity from Informatica in Feb this ... if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  . There's even a word for the small droplets that fall through an open ... magpatila ng ulan—to wait for the rain to pass. You wait an hour, and the rain ... . Ask anyone who's lived in the Philippines for several years; they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an ... Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It ... involved in performance.” This was an engineered induction of stereotype ... intelligence in our common thinking. Obviously, we reason, one scores an A on a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  above and ended up in puerto rico with my sorority sisters for spring break! it is always tempting to take an extra day or week to cram in more ... i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The ... yourself”. In the novel, James Gatz created and became Jay Gatsby - the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  anachronistic conceit. I love that, as Alyssa Keiko once wrote in an influential ... Stanford gym in my wallet, for whenever I'm in the Bay Area. No one tell ... strategizing. I live in a second floor apartment in Central Square. It's an old

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... . 96 hours seemed vast. Not in retrospect. Take out 36 hours for sleep ... excellent treat. Like this one: “There were once two mathematicians in an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... wings yet and appears rather small for an adult (American cockroaches are ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... GIR, and, of course, the overall decision to pursue an MIT education in ... preparing for the future. The number of decisions you have to make as an

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Featured 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 ... . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a ... and State College have both become home, though in very different ways

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... and lower into the ground. As an example, in natural disaster scenarios ... ’s sort of like voltage potential rings). The map is also shaded for an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  teaspoon each (or to taste). Boil for an hour or until the leaves are of ... fat. Then you dump it all in a pot and boil it for a while, then you ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding

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

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an ... -- THREE WEEKS AGO -- Thursday night, while debugging an Arithmetic Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at ... fall in the next few weeks. i've spent the past few years as an

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010