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  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead ... learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  schoolers, where teachers teach a series of classes over seven Saturdays, from ... mind off the program, if only for a little bit. I was tense, worried that ... was stepping out, for a bit. And then I cried. The fruit of my labor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  failed a test I studied two days for. Then I slept for three hours a night ... for lateness. I also had a 6.002 circuits due that Friday, which I ran ... all nighter, working from midnight to 8am, taking a break for food, then

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  student) would normally afford for dinner. I never missed a group meeting ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab, debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... and not them and that’s all. Not because I’m not doing A, B, C and I can ... worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Harbor (for a really cool Freshman Pre-Orientation Program), I experienced ... to the district for a snack at Bova’s Bakery, where delicacies are ... . Regardless, Haymarket is the place for best grocery deals, ones a buyer can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra ... , this was a waste of precious learning time, so I stepped in for the class ... skip over the next section, but I thought I'd do a quick lesson for those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry ... the pattern for ulan is, as I mentioned earlier, a brief period of rain ... , but it's always a nuisance. You can go for weeks, months, years of your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  [/caption] This sophomore year, I was roped into making the dish for a [annotation ... I will take all the help I can get. it's a ~journey~ best trekked with ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though ... was led upstairs, where French House and a recently-baked chocolate cake

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is somewhat self-evident. When I said college was a "socializing institution", I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  largely homogenous suburban neighborhood where I grew up to a playground for ... in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... , January 26th, standing, from 33 feet away. First we fired into a 11 bulls ... ’s eye, in front of which I unfortunately can’t make out my sights, even

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... heartfelt. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany of sorts. I finally experienced

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  MIT. I have a hunch that the smattering of MIT students from my eighty ... only thing I ever really wanted from my life was a family, kids, and ... company) for my entire life. I discovered a fear of getting boxed in, a fear

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  idea how, I am not a bed scientist. My bed had been with me for 15 years ... have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... ; however, it was all for naught the moment my efforts would matter most. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  lessons and regress and retreat from who I could be...that hurt a lot. It ... lieu of moving on from it. When I sensed the beginning of a spiral of ... . Basically, 5.60 was a hedged bet, and as I hedged, time passed, others grew

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  wall of books, a sweeping view of MIT’s main courtyard could be seen from ... says about her daily life at MIT. She loves that you can get a daily fix ... dozen people spring to mind, and I laugh and tell her, “A lot.” We share a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n ... Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my ... auditorium. And just for you guys, I got some footage of his talk. Sorry in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011