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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... deaths (the needles) from a haystack of celestial phenomena; I convened ... , creative collaborators from all across the world.  For my work, I got to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor ... Happy 10th birthday, blogs!!! I made you a cake! (With help from ... a hard one for me – from MIT Marching Band to my service fraternity

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don ... :( charging spots near desks is far from where I live so I stay there is ... year that I made a playlist for when I study there...yes, I'm serious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  walked away from that mirror, and took a shower. When I came out (ha ha ... part, the one where MIT actually plays a really large role - that I hope ... eventually accept myself. And all I can ever hope for is that the content I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  right UROP (I got to make a guide to difficult conversations for mine ... . And at MIT, where a 59 on an exam can be a B, the feeling of failure at ... from your social circle for a week when you start dating someone. So fall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... waiting. I also helped review a poster design for Splash. The theme was ... moving to where they needed to be on the day-of. That night, I made a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more ... the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a ... whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• 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 ... lecture. It is noon. Danny B.D. ‘15 You ask for a studfinder. I give you a power drill.   You ask for a studfinder, but it turns out I don

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

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  particular, I walked from Macgregor and into Central Square without seeing a ... doing some things. I'm taking a class on prosody, which can be transcribed ... of toxic relationship with linguistics. For example, I did a UROP in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  ’s a line from a Dr. Dre interview that I think about all the time: “I ... 't have a hot car and a hot house and get out looking crazy.” I can think of ... actually relax by not doing this to myself! I am taking a break from setting

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  traveled together in China for a vacation (I was stuck at home interning :P ... 在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... ~75% of submissions. ‘Twas a bummer, but I was grateful for having ... had no idea how to choreo. Although I’ve been practicing poi for a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  of a firehose, but can't I step slightly away from the nozzle? I ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... to stare at code for 6-7 hours a day. I could never be a code monkey ... . For a while, I've considered pursuing 15-1, business management, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  astronomy. Fast forward a few weeks, to the New House front desk, where I ... don’t I send her a copy. Me: *blown away by how nice people can be ... ’s right. I’ve reached out to a number of physics professors (I can't speak

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011