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  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  where to apply There’s this line in the Pixar movie, Ratatouille: I ... I was doing. Who knows where this path will go. But the stuff I can ... where to apply Tips on the application components Why I chose MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of ... gotten in. Hobbies I’d never heard of, towns I’d only heard of, and

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

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  miles away, and i was left to fend for myself in this world where ... difference in most people’s lives. i think that they can still be a good ... /classmates and that i can evaluate my performance in a subject by my own standards

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the ... pictures in the comments! I personally haven’t had a good cry yet, but when I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  life where advice can never replace lived experience, but I wanted to try ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  thought in my head was “I volunteered in the ER at MGH, I can help, I need ... happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can ... most burning question I have in my mind is as an individual, what can I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  meaning: Last summer, I worked in an Asian clinic, where I realized the ... Mandarin. Eventually, I hope I can work in the field of public health ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where

  • 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.

  

  for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• 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 ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just

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

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats ... Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer ... is to replace something so large, in both time and money. If I had to ... 'm with these groups in the first place. In my second blog post, which I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  goals, and more interested in how I can accomplish them. That doesn't mean ... future, that I can come back and continue to be a member of the Guild. In ... live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  late, so I quickly checked in two of my luggage bags, hugged my uncle and ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in ... collapsed onto my seat, breathing out in exhaustion. “Classic Vincent,” I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  hoped to do in order to get me to where I needed to be. Embracing that ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  , and I'm in a position where I could hide behind my hetero relationship ... at least I have some security in mind that I can come out to them ... thing is being organized (thanks Petey!), so in the meantime I can throw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  doing so I realized that I wasn't exactly interested in where that planet ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like ... is a room with a rich history. i can name the past four people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022