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  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  medical school in the world knows that MIT is a tough place, and that ... question repeatedly: after all, MIT is primarily a technology ... medical school in Fall '12 were asked to answer a series of questions to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... : although my "day in the life" was in fact a typical Tuesday or Thursday this semester (as in, every Tuesday/Thursday is like that), my Mondays, Wednesdays

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  power. In Nigeria, electricity is a matter of arbitrariness: at any point in time, there’s a 50% chance of electrical power, so much so that my ... , although this is now a dated abbreviation). In the consistent absence of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a ... and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  unclear) at midnight because all I can think about is how much I’m not ... It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... videos in a playlist below. Here's a masterlist of all the vlogs, with ... at night This is Not a Picture || VEDA #2 – #askMIT, career fairs, Big

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  extremely clear, '28th best high school violinist in South Dakota' is not a ... /them pronouns." Why is this important? Why say all this? In a pre ... usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  ... everything. Although I do live with 6 people in what is essentially a ... ? check.) You're a lot more limited in customizing your space. This one is ... works in every major city I've been in, and is all around a great resource

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  was coming in. I knew Cru existed but not much about it, and after ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals ... ="101923" /] In the fall we also went to a retreat with these students to New

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  . MIT honestly paid my friend to go spend a month in Mongolia learning how ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... -ordinate my learning mostly from [a] Planetarium in New Delhi. Me & other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  knew this dish would always feels like a hug from home. Food is so much ... ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... a song for four minutes and it'd feel like twelve. Time is not real

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  sounds like: living in a van, which is gutted and re-modeled on the inside ... disappointed in myself at the time, because I hadn’t realized how much effort ... thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... very familiar to a lot of people on campus simply because of how much he ... So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... thousands of application essays in one application cycle, so how is your essay ... reason is just because the sentence is conveying a narrative in an everyday

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  ever a Bad Idea. Bad Ideas is a weekend festival thrown by East Campus ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... took the name of the weekend much more seriously. There was a Bad Ideas

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
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  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse ... think of it as a stepping stone. 18. Take risks. 50. This is the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009