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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... ?t=5756 -- When I got to the airport for my first ever flight, I ... next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6 ... the lab and assignments for the rest of session. Office hours were offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look ... admission officers ("adcoms") are not looking for "standard" answers, and you ... out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  same time, in many ways, it is the sign I am looking for when I feel like ... so for the rest of my MIT career, and maybe even further beyond. I even ... watching a sunset walking across one. So, if you’re looking for that kind of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next ... . The buildings looked warm and inviting and none of them looked weird. For once, I didn’t want weird. The cold wind bit through my sweater, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he ... at the water, look at other people's hair." wind direction was so vital

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... , because the initial news still stings for us. But we will say that, after

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  've heard before, but not a person I think I've met. I looked them up in the ... , so I dropped it for a while. With a spark of inspiration, I looked ... GRA. Formerly known [annotation note='The T is for Tutor. You can tell

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours ... the minute I sleep. It looks more like this: And food matters a lot too ... something that looks like: This is a bit complicated, so I’ll just draw the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... I really like about (1): the cables unplug for the earphones, making ... constantly. I can never seem to hold onto one for very long, though this is the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  . My legs and back have been supremely thankful for that. On the minus ... favorites would not get admitted, and for all the work and effort that was put ... through committee? I hope there's room for her..." The next morning, I woke

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  shenanigans that I'll look back on fondly for the rest of my life. I'm excited ... talked about extensively on the blogs. Burton-Conner is known for being ... frustrating at times since no matter how hard the team fought for us, it seemed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  difficult for those who may not even realize the immense potential of ... in the best light possible for competitive college admissions. So as ... number of different coding projects for students to get exposure to the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... and current, for the lamp, are really weird. Even if you put a high ... temperature, for example. The voltage across the tube remains fixed, but now we

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  of 31 colleges and you could vote for yours. Whichever college had the ... . --------------------------------------------------------------- wow, looks like we killed the MIT node...akamai is shuffling the ... ) ---------------------------------------------------------------   For a short amount of time the website was back up with a "fix

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... recommend it. Thanks, Michelle Obama, for releasing this the same semester I ... stepping out of the haze of classes and exams and taking time to look at the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... you are looking for a quick synopsis. Rankings can provide a comparative ... will provide the best foundation for admission to how does one actually

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be looking for a Korean-American character who wasn't written into the books ... that out of the way, I'm writing this entry for a few reasons. One

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  to look like a chic tiny home. For further reading: Stephi Lee on ... let me shower. I’d heard a crow call in person for the first time. I ... looked beautiful. A typical day of this: I’d wake up in the back of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  begged the TA's for a regrade and they finally gave me a 60, subtracting ... . Then I worked intensely hard the next two nights for the next 6.005 pset ... . Soon after, test grades for 6.005 came out. I got a 78 on the test. That

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015