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  On Greatness

  

  best you can be at it. Why? Because if you do this, greatness in some sense will naturally follow. Some of you will take in math and science and ... can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  weighted against one. I don't know which envelope you'll find in the mailbox on Monday. But I can tell you that it won't change who you are ... open up to you, wherever you end up. Best of luck to you all -- in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  that tools will appear if the idea is planted in you. Learn about poetry ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... you get from 4am psets - they are not "fun" in the strictest sense

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  should I go in the quirky direction? unclear but you would not believe ... need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on ... just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  I can recall: "Do you remember 8.02? The night before the test we were ... , that's more than I can say about 10.32." Can you believe that they got ... DID YOU KNOW? The late Strom Thurmond filibustered the Civil Rights

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... incredibly competitive and you were accepted because the people in 3 ... confidence that you have learned “how to think.” With that in mind, enjoy CPW

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  LIGHTING FALLING ON THE WALL! You can literally see the brush strokes on the ... the internet is real!! Because... April 13, 2018 [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXb_PCLF1Sw[/embed] In just under a year, Cartoon Network blessed the world

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  frolic happily in the intellectual playland of Wikipedia. You can go on ... textbook. You won’t regret it. But what does this have to do with LinkedIn ... can. On the other hand, there’s learning and skill building. In my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  with the circumstances you are in and create for yourself. My social ... do my part in trying. A smile can go a long way. It is not my job to ... . The people in your life should make your world bigger, not smaller

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  extraordinary. For the benefit of the world, forget who you were to fit in with ... Disorder” (or “I see everything”) I was tar-trap black in love with you. I ... , drifted, detached when you wrote you never cared for color-contrasts in

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  can change paths, though sometimes the path you want to take lies in the ... instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence ... were (i.e. yourself any time in the past), but you aren’t yet who you

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student in high school and getting straight b's here at mit? Well now you did ... calculated. Which makes sense, you can't have a grade point average until you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  [by Shelby Heinecke '13] THE Gustavo Dudamel, you know, the hip ... . As you might have known, I am a violinist in MITSO, and I experienced ... , visited MIT last Friday to receive the 2010 Eugene McDermott Award in the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  moment in the Institute's history before today. In this video we see ... , professors describing the goal of the MIT education as to "combine, in perhaps ... film. It's especially obvious when you look at the demographics of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  amazing. The students are awesome! Let me tell you more about them... The ... students who have served in the armed forces and students who have spent the last year in religious service. The class includes students who did the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  because you end up with both bachelor's and master's degrees in a shorter ... . That doesn't mean you can't graduate with your undergrad class first - it's all about how you want to structure things. In DUSP, there are four

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  Life has drastically changed in the past few months. You’re in a ... life-changing. You started in one place and will end up in another. You’ve got mixed emotions. You can see college peeking at you from around the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  miles in training, so you can for sure do it now on race day ... fatigue in my legs. YOU CAN DO IT, I screamed to myself (in my head, not out ... always be something that you can improve, but as long as you don’t let it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  disporportionately male when compared to the college-going population as a whole (in ... women to apply to their schools, but if you look around out there, you'll see numbers like 20% for women, if even that. MIT women rock. (This you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  audience. I counted how many names in the booklet I recognized: about 17% of ... process what happened on Friday, so for now I'll just show you some pictures and tell you roughly what happened. We were assigned station numbers

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014