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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  hope I can become a sort of liaison for that. I gave a talk earlier this ... ... ^^;) A group photo from ASA Senior night Despite how involved I was in so ... was called "Home Sweet College", where I had talked about being a scared

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... times where you think "ok, this it the last time FOR SURE", but after a ... fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  [/embed] For this project, I implemented a menu highlighting system, where the ... display it on the LCD. After asking for some help from Jay, I ended up ... , implement, and create a presentation for our final project. I teamed up with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... where I came from anymore. If there’s one major takeaway I got from high ... much I can say before it gets drowned out in a pile of words. These are

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  donations from alums allowed us to all get robes for free. I played as Neville ... for years. Like this one I found the other day; you can see the date ... saying "I know a spell that can beat that challenge!" Neville's broken into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  helps me remember where I came from and where I’ve been, which in my ... definitely next on the list. There is a mini-Bible from before college, but I ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... and incredibly vague. A good fit is a place where you feel completely natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  years these are from. Figure 1a: Underwear Color by Undergraduate Dorm I ... , where all my email addresses supersecretly lead. I did it a while ago ... mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  Europe, I was still amazed every time I reached a new destination! For ... and Europe. I even met up with a friend whom I knew from an ... exams which ended early June, I immediately set off for some traveling (I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let ... , rather than a near-daily burrito from Anna's Tacqueria, I have a new staple ... the way I squeezed in time for amazing people. But it was always a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I ... procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• 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 ... 't a big deal for me, then. I was still healthy.   It's at this ... requires you to correct for it all at once. I can't go to lecture if I haven

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  a break from my 5.111 problem set. I had dinner a few hours ago with ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... 're definitely not a cult * * * ME: so where are you from FROSH: minnesota ... and i can't believe this roller coaster and wow ME: omg yeah i know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... application process can be very competitive, it is not inherently a competition. This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  weekend was what I think the blogs created for people much sooner, a ... from San Francisco. Five (or six?) years later, I left Berkeley with a Ph ... blog entry because I have a ton of work to do for my employer (a company

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  !"]cap and gown[/annotation] using money I’d gotten from being a [annotation ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these ... never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ... coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things

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

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and ... it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... ways of solving problems, for example. I wrote about a concrete research ... this is not intended to be a "model essay" (I think the ending can use

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009