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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  she started listing subject numbers and I knew what they were – it was a ... intelligence research. I hope we can become as strong a leader in identifying and ... , but I like it as a framework for thinking about what we want the world

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... (which sadly does happen, as I wrote before). They have no place in serious ... Type 4 thrown in as a high score, too. I think I got scored as a 2

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  . Crude imitation of real sushi. What am I missing? Fresh fish, a sharp ... sensory bias (a.k.a. the steak I prefer the most)."]“best”.[/annotation] In ... the semester, I even opened a meal plan briefly, before I got

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you ... . Cut it out with the “what are my chances?” stuff. I have a very serious ... 'm doomed to work at mcdonald's for the rest of my life what should I do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  have an inner peace that I never had before. It’s what it must feel like ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... About a month ago, a parent asked me: "What do all these majors ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  've heard before, but not a person I think I've met. I looked them up in the ... I've always wondered who lived in the room before that. Were there ... lived in this room for a semester before moving to ET."]Epsilon Theta

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... "I Am Excited." I liked big words and long posts written in a creative ... sleep I pocket a thousand sweet visions to keep I cherish the time before

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... research in neuroscience) offered me a position in her lab. I spent a ... similar in the future. I’m majoring in Course 6-9 (a combination of computer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long ... ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in ... floor. I also wrote you a blog post a year ago. What I said there was true ... :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  now. What used to be a maintained sting like an open wound, now merely ... similarly barely-open-up-able door. "I should've re-taken the SAT like Sam, should've taken that extra class like Bob, should've gotten that A like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I ... up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...   ... what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  college trip. Even in a nation governed by socioeconomic class, I believe ... worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish ... that. For the first time in a while, I was facing a stressful situation ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the ... students in any way possible. I spent a majority of the past week with these ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  Student Game Night, and Add Date Check-In, and… It’s a list of things that ... grounding, now. You know what you need to do. There’s a line I say at this ... depression. The semester I was readmitted, I attended a Returning Student

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried ... go to MIT, so I should be able to do a simple puzzle, right? Wrong ... . Nobody will know that I shrieked and ran from a guy in a pigeon mask. On

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... -inducing passage from Faulkner's Light in August: Memory believes before knowing ... . Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009