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

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a ... years. I think I also knew that this is a pretty big deal; I expected that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  built into it — research is truly a collaborative endeavor in how ideas ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... a lab in CSAIL. I could say a million great things about my mentors

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  ironed blue slacks, and a brown belt tucking in a semi-buttoned pink and ... in tone as I approached the cash register. His moving from a soft and ... shift in tone, this "code switching" as you will be told, as a regional

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  this year, a lot of the normal fanfare is pretty much nonexistent. I feel ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... was much, much stronger than any of us anticipated, and watched as a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since ... school class, and the first male valedictorian in 10 years -- he's not a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  'd never built a robot. I had never hung out with Ben Jones in real life or ... . This time, my iPod is charged and my boarding pass is secured in my ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Wednesday, I got a cortisone shot in my knee from an orthopedist who is also ... , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... year we went fully "online" in our admissions reading process; that is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering ... how an MIT education is a valuable investment. Despite the awkward ... . There were a lot of things that also highlighted how much has changed

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  -HW which is a writing-intensive class. I went about choosing a CI-HW in an ... paper. Gabrielle Union’s is a lot more educative in the feminine side of ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... but about the person. Sure MIT's is a shortcut that opens doors, but if

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split ... outlet to a telephone line, a highly unusual move. Finally, there is much ... Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  logical fallacies, how James Baldwin crushed William Buckley in a debate in ... that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  in rapid succession. Everyone involved in running it is a volunteer ... , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  class participant is placed with a master teacher in a middle or high ... placement is in a charter school freshman Physics class. Every week, I don my ... stops and worlds apart. The most often cited difference is in the color

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  MIT in one of my philosophy classes. How does it go? “There is no ... reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... , I guess. God, why is this so difficult? I’m just talking in circles

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many ... --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... ’t have a word in any language for the color blue, because blue is actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... culture at a critical moment in my career. It taught me so much about the ... other people in the country who truly understand how hard the job is. We

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023