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• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking ... culturally connected to the ‘tute. From the long days in committee that I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  . Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological engineering and neuroscience and double minor in history and music and I was ... time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate ... think that I have no idea where I'll be after next year. I should try to enjoy this stage of life while I can - when I really don't know what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  to make us hate each other. I hope that everyone in America can ... confused. Many are saying, where do we go from here? I forced myself to go ... , and there's nothing I can do..." An email was sent out this morning

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  from where I first called home, in Inman Square as opposed to Kendall. I ... of my last few months here can be spent walking down the halls where I ... I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  that it would be a bad way to get where I'm going in transportation, but ... 's limited to 100 students in a lottery. So, we'll see if I can do it. I ... since you can declare yourself "undesignated." I've done a lot of thinking

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... 't change the fact that there is only so much effort i can pour into the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  course they do; but unlike in a class, where I can always go to office ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... .[/annotation]My parents and I were in SoCal last March Break (to visit my four-year-old twin

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  more and more about my own freshman year - in particular, the choices I ... other Greek men, I have a great deal of pride in not only my own ... and the same triumphs - both of which can be found in abundance at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  myself I was starring in. And for the most part, I would argue these ... everything in between.   In Barbie, it’s unknown where the Kens go when ... a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  research. I am a UROP in the Sheng laboratory, where I've worked since the ... keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I ... friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we ... friend^2s and friend^3s were there, so I felt like I wouldn't fit in. Plus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  where I built in dedicated time for healthier behaviors—like setting aside ... compassion as I can. You share so much of yourselves with us in the application ... my makeshift home office can be found. Hello routine, my old friend I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  of being in the intellectual and geographical center of where the ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week ... founders who come in as guest speakers.   This is what I'm taking this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  I haven’t worked in a lab at MIT, I can assure you that it’ ... one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new ... will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... drop off my stuff. I then walk to the nearby Cottage Inn, where the ECs ... . 8:30pm. I arrive back at my parents' house, where I'm staying. There

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  Hey guys, happy 2011! It's been awhile. As I write this, I'm in San ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... yesterday when I was still sitting in 8.01, worrying about understanding how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  pm. i'm studying progenitor cell migration in planarians, which are ... to say, i was in survival mode every single day until i finished my ... 't reel it in i might end up somewhere i don't want to be. it's just really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  ), and being social (because I can’t live with being a shut-in) So that ... just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean ... bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... take classes in course one, I realized I would definitely get the ... traveling to Ghana, I got more excited about planning. Many people in Ghana

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015