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  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... , and I decided I couldn’t live that far away from my family for four ... few years would probably be just like the one before it. I lived at home

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... , and hypothesizing where you'll live and who you'll hang out with. (We ... discussing one applicant or another. Hundreds upon thousands of lives and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read ... , injustice. Then I read about the lives you've changed - a math or science ... , others aren't me. To the 87% of you who have shared your lives with us and

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  now) by Sabrina M. '21 Living Meaningfully by Nisha D. '21 ... over twenty years now, they've allowed everyone to peer into the lives of ... different points in their lives, pursuing different milestones, and feeling

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  which allow you to be a small, positive influence in other people’s lives ... not have meaningful lives, which is surely false.⁠ I think one of the most direct ways people can make each other’s lives better is just by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  who come along to eat the plants living in their pits; any critter that ...  critter accommodate to live within the scrap? Well, my critter doesn't have eyes, so ... , hide from predators, and eat critters that live in the water.  

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and ... of “make the lives of the wealthy more comfortable, since they have ... initially thought about joining the Media Lab to help people live with Autism

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

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  into your lives. It's how we grow. What matters is not that you failed ... . When you're living on a college campus with 400 things going on every ... time in your lives when your only real responsibility is to learn. Try to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  avoid the self-checkout lane. I know, I really live life on the edge ... understanding of living our mission and applying our values. I even love how we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches. When the meeting ended, all but a few students left, taking the lively

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do ... out, realized “wait no! I can’t live without that!” and brought it back

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  professional. The students were trained and skilled—certainly living up to the ... with men from outside. The very fact that students do not live in ... to move its students into a single living space adjacent to the Boston

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  where I am now. :D) Living in the graffiti-adorned projects of the Lower East Side, I’ve adjusted well to low-income living. Stuyvesant High

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  sixteen when I discovered a very large, very live spider challenging me to a ... , the students of WMBR have started WMBR Live, a series of twice

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  gay people at my high school, so I knew that it was possible to live ... environment we lived in. We moved on with our lives. There are many fish in ... no longer a defining characteristic of our lives, and that was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  live in an apartment with some EC friends, who all lived on slugfest in ... , you choose to live with a[annotation note="One person who lives on Putz is a Putzen. Two or more people who live on Putz are also Putzen

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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  what classes their taking, or where they live, or who their friends are ... ’m taking, and where I live. When I introduce myself to people, it’s only natural to talk about these things. I’m CJ. I’m from the Philippines. I live

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  I have yet to live (but hope to, despite never really having written ... of my friends who now live there or have lived there. Now it is home. I ... . Often they say they missed their youth entirely, never living in the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... questions about their lives to help you puzzle through your own young ... with optimism. Nostalgia can be deceptive, so remember to live in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  things that I've tried to live by or maybe wish I had realized when I was ... . There is nothing that broadens your perspective like living in another ... themselves as happiest often viewed their lives as separated into chapters. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012