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  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the place they want to spend their college years. The “weekend” itself starts ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... be working on my thesis instead, so I stop blogging and revert to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... failures are gifts that will lead to successes down the road. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... Mashable writer Sarah Kessler. Startup Splash Networks wants to make selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• 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 ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... to “leave the room” so the committee members could deliberate. At 11

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and ... holds my traumatic adjustment phase. Determination to push myself further ... , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in. It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and ... definitely still want to help people, but I’m not finding it all quite as simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in the sun rather than the shade. But then I wouldn’t be able to type as

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... checked them and learned from my mistakes. I didn’t try to listen to music, which regrettably distracts me from being able to process what I’m reading

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... foolish to recognize his potential. Washington rebounded from this ... ’s attempt to gain a command was somewhat futile to begin with because he was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks ... myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014