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

  

  "]MITHIC[/annotation], which is a platform for collaboration between the SHASS and departments in ... areas she is not an expert in. She is an example of a life-long learner ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants

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

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  , if you ask me “Is there a group for students who are religiously ... - a prospective student asked one of the admissions counselors, who ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... other people in the country who truly understand how hard the job is. We ... to take 8.02. Everyone who works at MIT is expected to innovate, to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... . Other MIT students who are more capable than me likely have a much easier ... [annotation note="a massive and extremely stressful affair in which ~400

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are ... one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  round in the magazine. Don’t give up the mission. This is a mantra Coach ... ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a ... and way cooler, is this IAP in rifle. Rifle is one of three firearms

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

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... up and down in the water. My classmates and I were in a pool shallow ... nostrils burned a bit, and in a panic I opened my mouth. I quickly leaped out

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... instrument, or, in its proverbial form, "if all you have is a hammer ... Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  senior year in Course 7 (which is awesome! Everyone should study biology!!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Wednesday, I got a cortisone shot in my knee from an orthopedist who is also ... , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  like I’m watching a glitch in the matrix. The fact that my identity is ... ’s in, but before that conversation, I viewed him as just that—someone who ... in East Campus. I like math, and writing, and coding. The trouble is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  tingles briefly like a paper cut. Since we think our thought process is ... see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may ... definitely NOT. It is rather one, among so many other valid options. It's a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Events

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... "] ah yes, a normal day in lecture with a normal set of... people sitting

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Featured 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 ... on the couch or laying in bed. Or in cases where a laptop is just too ... support worker. But a microphone is a suprisingly handy thing to have – it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the ... school felt like a really good fit. But honestly, who is a college to ... attempts, he was denied a commission in the service: not, Washington fancied

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  out in the minds of those who knew him. He was the butt of many a good ... after Luís Francisco Verges’ death, a fellowship in his name is still ... after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  that's okay, really. Because the bruise on my arm is a great conversation ... snowboard?" "Er, I try...") and falling is a good way to learn to laugh at ... , but just in case I run out). HOWEVER, (and this is where my advice goes

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... published in Popular Science and friends who build something amazing and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010