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

  

  few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  not I'm at work); that, or the world just hates me. Anyway, I was ... transmitter (among other things), and all was right with the world. Of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  world, because I am alive. Depression reveals itself in different forms ... had withdrawn from the world around them. Some have had frequent anxiety ... pulling myself out of depression has transformed how I think of the world

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  to impact this country, but is going to impact the world. I’m learning ... the world record for deportations in this country—over 2 million, just ... and how we see how the world should be in the future. We don’t only have

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  who had all just gotten laid off, not so much. So the real world and my ... MIT utterly failed to prepare me for the real world.  I wish there had ... training in Excel (the most important engineering software in the real world

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  fields of work. 7. The Real World, Year 1: Value People Skills as well as ... specific knowledge and technical skills and tasks. The real world is not so ... that it’s nearly impossible to work without them. 8. The Real World

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ), World You Come From ("world" - 250 words), Significant Challenge ... enjoyed the "world" essay - and I thought it was the one of the best prompts ... . Both the "world" and the "challenges" essay are structured so that it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  changes they make in the real world. Unfortunately the commencement video ... molecules. Reformulate the equation. In short, I want you to hack the world, until you make the world a little more like MIT: more daring and more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  fall! Interstellar was created by four students in the class of 2022

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  to MIT’s Class of 2022 have asked us if their acceptance will be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  I cared about more than almost anything in the world. Almost anything ... . They are about the many worlds which at once overlap with and stand apart ... lens of these books, I can almost feel these other worlds vibrating

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  into the real world and work on real problems. I thought that maybe I ... , by taking classes from world renowned professors and researchers, who ... great, world renowned researchers simply tried what many others were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  the same sense I was at school. I’m fortunate to be at one of the world’s ... world means you have conference calls at every hour of the day, making

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  overcome by the desire to sleep, I am requested to do World and Nation (where ... to be doing the World and Nation section. 2:29am: Apparently in honor ... issue?" 3:30am: After putting off World and Nation until the last

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  surprised by the fractal nature of life -- there’s the world in all its ... make choices and zoom in, and there’s this whole world again.  To sketch ... , creative collaborators from all across the world.  For my work, I got to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  home feel a world away; I am being taken by both the excitement and the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  yourself, and know that you will be successful and can change the world no ... this world" Faith '17 - "You are not the sum of your academic choices ... 're going to do amazing things, meet incredible people, and change the world

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  being interested in science + wanting to help people and change the world ... , is a very rare and valuable commodity in the science world; he called ... 's right, I think. There are infinite ways to help the world and a finite

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  a bagel tree that solves world hunger. Who knows what paradigm

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  world a better place. And we hope that you share in that excitement. But

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004