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  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... enough to keep our torsos comfortably above water, unless we made the ... 't remember where - with my instructor supporting me on top of the water with

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  + Drone from Amazon with 2-day shipping. Although the Tragedy Of The Drone

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  could do about it. Now, there are a lot of things that you can influence ... extracurriculars, and you can craft exquisite college essays. There are also a million things you can’t control. You can’t control where you went to high

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . It challenged me physically, mentally, and emotionally. It made me more ... .” “Why are you feeling guilty?” Well, that was a long story. At the ... because I made someone disappointed in me. I felt ashamed of my work and the

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

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  from their first choice schools and yet are completely in love with where ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... like my old self, if you don't get the news you are hoping for on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you ... builds character. 37. In the long run, where you go to college doesn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  we have made have taken a step in that direction, there are still ... displayed here have made to both MIT and their fields. However, we disagree with the values inherent in the choices of this display and are

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  as brilliant as some of the professors are, we still get super excited ... times I've seen it are immediately prior to CPW and before the Dalai Lama ... prioritized what was being cleaned where (you could pretty much predict the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... extracurriculars or major awards, and asks what their chances are of getting into MIT. Or, around the time when applicants are notified of their acceptances

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  what you want out of college. Not because of where you are, but because ... As decision day draws nearer, “who” questions are taking priority ... “you’ll be great wherever you go” are well-intentioned, but therefore

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In ... worth being proud of, but that's where step one comes in. Before moving ... . There are those who are brilliantly self-discipllined, and there are those

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  underactuated systems, where some components are passive, and not controlled in ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... students in the lab I research in, who are also in the class. The former I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  basements, but after a few wrong turns you no longer recognize where you are ... our dramatic lives and a break from your own. (You are reading Hemingway. You are reading tumblr. You are reading an information theory

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  )convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some tips to figure out where you’ll fit best: Ask multiple residents about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  of MIT, I've made friends that are more like family at this point, gone ... , and there are some serious perkus nonacademia. I've landed awesome jobs ... brief background, I made some really close friends in Oregon. Now that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  it. The thought of it made my spine weep. The thought of it…but I ... swimming. I detested it. It made my stomach roll in folds. Did MIT care ... class where I was so unambiguously the single worst performing student in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , I suppose, is MIT. For where two or three are gathered in my name ... . It is the night before Easter. We are in the in-between, says another ... ' resurrection because we are uncomfortable with the uncertain temporariness of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not ... Shanghai dialect, “we are Shanghainese.” This is a very colloquial, well ... are Shanghainese, we are Shanghainese!” When I was little, my father

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful ... pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... closes with him coming up with I’m Still Standing, where it shows him

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021