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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... -year-old Elizabeth were both gunning for the same job, he said he ... loss for words. You might be incredulous at the fact that I hadn't been

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  dragons you’ve already conquered over the past two decades. At least for me ... decisions came out absorbed in the application process for other schools, religiously editing essays and looking up acceptance statistics. In the RA round

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  for the sake of being a startup founder. Leave the water running Things ... consensus was, in the best-case, five years. The "upper limit" for how long it ... for the ESP website, 17 years later? Partly because of how expensive it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled upon (actually, not really. My professors for 20.363, Biomaterials

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... IAP, I was a teaching assistant for the very first time. Elizabeth ... types of assignments they did or what the final projects looked like. You

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  empathy. Or alternatively, the empathy we feel for some people can be more ... ally looks and how empathy factor in. What happened in the last dream you ... abandon projects; we just shelve them for a later date. Afeefah: One of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... . Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia, Tubul, Great T

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  'd known that the deadline for certain summer internships, and programs like ... that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END ... important habit, professionally. I have a much broader appreciation for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to drive down for the eclipse so ... experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... grading first-years on "Pass/No Record," for which I am very grateful. The ... the technological one. People are looking at the things their doing in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  Floor 2 East was the base for the 2^n cookies operation, led by Adriana J ... to bake desserts for birthdays and other special days! The cookies were ... "[/annotation].  Last spring, I thought I ran the pacer test for the last time. But, since

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I ... would be too spicy for the “guest”, me, of my own father or mother ... ” party, people from MIT went to Yale for the Harvard-Yale football game. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve-wracking, sweat-inducing mess. We the admissions bloggers have somehow done it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  exclusive to the 2+ people involved. This is not, for the most part ... committed relationship? You should look for cues. First, sometimes, people will explicitly say they are not looking for commitment. You should

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm, East Campus. (The dorm goes by EC for short, or East Campus Alumni

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... , not four. It's easy to say that you'll read the lecture notes for the ... character and I took a look around. This was the second time I'd overslept

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... compare the two for fun. But anyway! During high school, I: Didn ... hard learning things I wanted to and leave Algebra II studying for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  'm sitting in my dorm room looking out at the beautiful Boston skyline, taking ... like my old self, if you don't get the news you are hoping for on ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  anything. Just check the course catalog for Splash 2019, with classes like ... Discord instead of the office. When the time came for us, a few weeks after everyone got kicked out, to elect directors for the summer and fall programs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020