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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ... outline of what to expect when we arrived: how to check in, where to go for ... arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  bed of a pickup truck, climb Mount Hua in China, and explore the ... , Alpha Phi Omega, I was interested in and involved in a lot of activities ... gave me a bookmark with a quote by Wernher von Braun: Research is What I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  line. What was the difference in my feelings and perceptions when I saw a ... results were definitely not what I had planned, which I will discuss in a ... . Like a lot. Please watch it before reading this. Past this point, I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  file I read. Yes, she had a sub-1400 SAT score, but you should have seen ... 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 / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  you passed. What I've noticed, both from the comments in the admissions ... getting a B in the class. Another example, I skipped the majority of my ... helpful or healthy. I got a C in physics/chemistry/biology/math Not all

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... finalized, I embarked on a sidequest to rig up the net in the center. It took ... people sat in it over the course of a week it sagged a lot more than I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ,” he said. I may have actually leaned back in my chair. “What do you ... admitted, I never considered that I got a pass just because I checked F on a ... I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... . In the few days before classes began, the other frosh and I ... throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  checking in on this account. Anyway, I think I have a bit of a unique ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... I should have gotten B's in several other classes as well, but I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you ... . You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. I give you a ... uneasily in his lonely office. I give you a studfinder. You look at my face

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

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

  

  , I'm last in every line that I join, but you know what I mean. Time ... Secret Service had never heard of before. My pen. I had to explain what it ... " to me, I tried again. "IF THE OBAMA WERE A UNIT OF MEASURE, WHAT WOULD

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

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... standard weight in a model of our decision process? Absolutely not. What

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't ... opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book ... finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  to MIT. I sent them a letter telling them about what I had done in the ... have a feeling that the scariest dragons that you and I will face in our ... , I wasn’t really sure what to write about, so I just gave a paragraph

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  never thought about before. Why am I here, at MIT? Why am I majoring in what I am majoring in? Why do I exist? I lost hope. I started to see no ... as opposed to something that I can use to reach a certain goal in life

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what ... Have I Ever, in which I discovered I was missing out on a lot of life

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

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  what works for you in terms of remembering events/due dates. I've never ... figure out what works for you. There is no shame in dropping a class ... before - four years later, I even think I got what I deserved at the time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... faulty voltage regulator in a protoype before demo session; pitching to ... are a lot of scars I gained too: telling my friends they should leave

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  pass. I see a life flash before my eyes, one of four years spent in MIT ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and ... -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in general and ... each pixel? There is such a joy in eyeballing where things should be ... impressively in the actual literature. So you should probably just go take a nap

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015