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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  to your peers. Everyone at MIT has something to offer (you do too ... your major when you have a diploma in hand. Tattoos and piercings are ... receive my MIT diploma. -Yul

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... stayed in that mental state for months, or even years. Their warm presence

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• 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?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... two houses offered to fraternities for residency. For a while, this ... passed down from the MIT Treasurer stating that the Institute simply could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... universities, namely Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA), Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity ... have that compared to the other HBCUs and universities she was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  it? There is no universal definition. So as it stands, enrollment ... is access, and the standards are specified by the state legislature. If ... university community facilitate that experience, but it all begins with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  Astronomy (with Anna Frebel, who studies the early universe, works on discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  said "And now, the President of the United States, Barack Obama!" (not an ... conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two ... to be in the same room as the President of the United States. There was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  experiences at pretty much any university. The funny thing is, individually ... their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  like to mentally split my workload into “steady-state” and “anomalous” categories. Steady-state work is recurring and regular: things like lectures ... in the steady-state category. Assignments are pushed and flushed from

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind ... considerable challenge at other universities. I've never, ever been very

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  simply goes from one predetermined state to another. An NFA, in one sense, does: it has options on which state to move to, and it could move between states even if there was no input. Does this make its behavior

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , in the comments section. Not the same few colleges: Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. I visited here for the first time this summer, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  every state. Make friends with people outside of your living group. Sure ... , you don’t have to say yes to the first UROP or job offer you get ... primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  internship at Rutgers University, for which I pretty much functioned as a data ... , comparative government..) that weren’t offered in our limited curriculum. I self ... touched upon by anything in her high school’s class offerings, but who

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or ... Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood's new policy, which states that "walking and ... states and municipalities competing for federal highway funds to include

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  this to be true, but most students are unwilling to state this outright ... wrong area. Many colleges and universities value multiple forms of ... college or university because they are likely to both take advantage of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  telling you about a steel fork? Well, at Lame-vard University, studying for your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in postwar Canada") The Kansas and Colorado State Boards of Education ("for ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013