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  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put ... 't really have lives outside of lab, but it's fun to pretend.) This year I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... "] SHASS.[/annotation] I, for one, think this hack was extremely well done and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  people for the last time, eaten a meal with them for the last time, played ... in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he ... student) would normally afford for dinner. I never missed a group meeting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... know whether you're in. Right now. But that's not good for you, let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• 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 ... David and Ali, but I’m especially grateful to them for taking me under ... manipulate images generated by deep learning models, as shown above. For this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  tests, long before I contemplated completing an application for college ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea. Sidequest 9: Build a thing. I built (with a LOT of help) a shelf for my loft

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  my advisor placement at first, since i had only applied for advising ... “hardest things available”. looking for challenge, i definitely got what i asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  .)     ivynewton ‘16: You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and ... can’t remember what it stands for anymore, but still you whisper it. IHTFP. excalculus ‘15: You ask your bio major friend for some help

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  the epic e-mail failure of po14 last spring. Look for Evan's blog about ... lie), dance practice, MedLinking almost everyone on my hall for some ... them with our queries;),though I think that wont be possible for someone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... Pressure." You should take the time to check out all the results, but for ... for 3.5 years and from looking through the results of this survey - that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... ! When I signed off the call I burst into tears for about 20 seconds, not ... exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  bookmarking the tab (try to keep switching it up for fun) should work fine. If ... to Paint for any finishing touches. See how fun it is to manipulate ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  than it had for me... And I could tell they were having fun, too. Those ... for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  . Everything’s gonna be different for him, because he has papers. I’m glad he ... , and he’s here. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) granted ... before. DACA has been expanded and the age cutoff for applying has been

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014