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  ten reflections on mit

  

  did. But how much of that is MIT? Or is it just me choosing to be a part ... within a mile of MIT. And while there’s much more to explore (down in ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and sadness is simply amazing and worth living for. I am valued in this ... experienced. Some of them have confined themselves in their rooms or a dorm ... who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  narrative -> point -> how it connects to me. In fact, this is what I use ... waits in the hospital, unable to obtain assistance. It is possible that a ... exorbitant bills. This is not acceptable in America, which claims to be a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• 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.

  

  work like that. Truth is, I did just fine. I got A's in 8.022 and 18 ... success of a semester is not measured in grades alone. Some people might say ... throw in a couple of pictures. Since that is my job. These are some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  the whites show, thinking, “A class is hard? An MIT class is hard? Who ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds ... ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  query out what is virtuous or good in a given set of circumstances ... is true in a lot of different ways—I'm taking a lot of different ... is the ultimate end of living, if not virtuous activity? Or, in a more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our ... and January. My desk is actually less than a foot from my bed. I sit on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... [annotation note='a process that is still ongoing, and won’t be over until april

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and ... can put as much of anything as you want. Just like the components in a ... they cool, make your sauce. Noted in the formula above, sauce is a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and ... time and energy of a trainee and it is very important to put them in a ... ’m soaking in being a senior at MIT and living at home.  What Is Your Favorite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... that were in my eyes, I counted every possible point against me: a 690 on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  the other panelists nod in agreement. Venturing off-campus is a good way ... Student Game Night, and Add Date Check-In, and… It’s a list of things that ... fall. My summer lasted three-quarters of a year. Some summers are much

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... on the couch or laying in bed. Or in cases where a laptop is just too ... makes skype calls much nicer, it’s good for narrating what’s going on in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  the time. Painful is different. In grad school, painful means a wrong ... it’s not me, maybe it’s the lab. He bailed. He is now WAY happier in a ... to find a mentor who is supportive of the search!) Unfortunately in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  is how much we rely on each other, and how much we can rely on each ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... of one of them: they're a student in[annotation note="Elements of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... this particular topic. She is going to guide me in how to make circuits for a [annotation note="which measures how much methane comes out of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021