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  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  a career in aerospace research? How did I figure it all out? These are ... -sensing constellation, which reminds me of how much I loved learning orbital dynamics in ... [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program ... pick out a piece from their collection that they can hang up in their

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place. Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all ... as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that ... take a moment and ask yourself if this is how we fall apart? but it ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  my priority, and I'm much happier now. MIT is confusing in many more ... really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my ... confusion as a feeling that comes in many different flavors. Some are sweet

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  History major is in this category). This probably gives you a sense of my ... so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced ... your chances at a top medical school*. There is a "MIT Effect" in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  pianola in the Center Room. A pianola is a self-playing piano! Unfortunately ... , garbage bags, hand soap refills, and much more. Everyone in the house had a ... . [21] What is this, a crossover episode? In early February 2020, tEp had

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... small depending on who you ask. And if a major is big, it doesn

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , dancing) be valued as much as a techie passion (like building stuff ... majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... world a better place. And we hope that you share in that excitement. But

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  live, and how to live ethically, and how to live in a way that is very ... action, and it’s a small step in something much greater that we’re trying ... immigrant. He is laid-back, friendly, with a subtle sense of humor. When I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... thinktank nature of people around here. Thinking is a hobby for many people

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  projects became a thing in East Campus: sure, MIT stopped worrying as much ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... -East-Campus-all-the-time, so this isn't going to really be a post about my own experiences in the

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

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  actually see all the many branches in high school. Math is a human and even ... definition described in Cromwell’s Polyhedra. A polyhedron is the union of a ... of the parallel result in two dimensions: the volume of a triangle is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , I was a good student in most classes, didn’t talk too much, and often ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when ... one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  Square, which is a much more reasonable name for a square than it is for a ... , who was also a floorpi resident, and how he did a speedrun through all ... Line’s SL3 route, which,[annotation note="there is so, so much MBTA lore

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I ... cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... or two—this is always better than being a burrito in your bed, although being a burrito in your bed is not a bad choice as well. 4) believe that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015