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• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... , peaceful participation in a protest will not negatively impact their admissions decision, because we would not view it as inappropriate or lacking

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  life, or at least life at MIT, is like snowboarding. You may or may not ... actually, it's not true. In fact, there were several students in my ... who were really really good at not falling as well. I wasn't one of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were ... definitely NOT. It is rather one, among so many other valid options. It's a ... because one door did not open. It's SO easy to compare yourself to someone

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  experience." :P Technically, I'm not kicked out from the blogs until the end ... *: * If you are not familiar with Wii MarioKart, either youtube what these ... /organization habits. You are not expected to know the answer now, and this almost

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  worked with, but I was struggling to balance my course work, was not making ... to cook dinner regularly. After 7pm, I try not to look at work and ... -19 vaccine recently and to be completely honest did not think I would

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  TV. It wouldn’t matter if you could use your color vision or not, because you would never use that ability; there would not even be words for ... redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that I'm not very good at Course 6, and as a result, not very good at ... experiences applying to jobs, and does not necessarily reflect every MIT student ... 's not very - nothing compared to writing college essays, though. Updating

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  that an international student "did not understand U.S. dating culture ... poster called "hookup culture" on entering college, and not all people find casual relationships right for them. Many people entering college do not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  working on essays full-time, procrastinating on research papers so that I could work on apps in class. By October, I was spending more time on MIT ... did it all over again, because my topics were boring. I worked

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ..." YOU: "Uh, aren't you a premed too?" HIM: "Yeah, but I'm not one of ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical ... story really short, I became interested in medicine after working with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  for all fields - publishing in human-computer interaction probably works ... research is the UROP project that I've been working on for almost two years ... the angle I was working on for quite a while. I still have an entire

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  before heading in to work, I'm not even stinkier! Now, I know what you ... exercise each morning. Ever since, I've been biking to work every day that it ... work feeling refreshed and without the jumpiness associated with too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  getting it ready. no, it’s not all work, if anything i’ve been doing can ... in the weekends, not even in my sleep. when i’m not working, i see the ... limit, but not reaching it, not getting past it. now, it truly does feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  of success, in things not working out. Rather, I’d say, there is great ... was not possible. I blush embarrassingly easily. I should probably ... seemingly simple outputs of our process – admitted, waitlisted, not admitted

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  metaphorically, not as if they could actually see it, not to the point where it ... actually seeing a banana. But it's not at all similar to looking at a banana ... asexual people describe. For example, not really wanting to have sex, aside

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  -directors was Matt B., who is in fact not affiliated with MIT beyond ESP. We run ... uncertainty about whether or not to run Summer HSSP at all. We had Splash ... the program normally is already a feat, given the amount of work it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  floor works for me. We're a cohesive unit, not just a bunch of people who ... different dorms as a prefrosh, or as a freshman, and trying out what works for you. Different places suit different people (which is true not only of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  ; After BeaverCube, I’m not entirely sure what I’ll end up working on. There ... what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what ... want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... documenting his work completely rebuilding Gus, which (he told us) he planned to ... working at companies like WiTricity and OtherLab, and researching at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019