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

  

  of this four-year university model. These [annotation note="around a ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of

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

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  's, University of London MBBS) Medical doctor - physical medicine and ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  also has the flagship store of Cereality, profiled today in a New York ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers

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

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  ), Chicago (Swapna '05), New York (Laura '06), and of course, lots of people in ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , because it's again negative ridiculous degrees outside, and the rest of the ... universal as liking baseball, sure, but it sure is convenient that a lot of my ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ride northeast of London to Cambridge. At the University, everyone ... ). As undergrads at the University of Cape Town, they marveled over the ... center of your universe, like it was for me. Longing means you’re feeling

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

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse ... looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling, pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  the young kids call a Finsta, or a Fake Instagram. I posted a lot of ... . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University ... was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... people you know in universities you aspire to go to, of people in majors ... respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• 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

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh ... Thursday afternoon in New York City. It was also mid-December, so "afternoon" was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Prize, alongside such distinguished visionaries as Steve Penfold of York University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... alarm goes off after about seven hours of sleep. I hit snooze, because who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005