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  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  ?"). At the end of each lecture, I felt mentally drained from the anxiety ... better. It felt like a clusterf*ck of students just hammering away at ... choices for me and, at the end of the day, that's what it truly comes down

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  of money. —Robo-CJ getting a job at a computer company. You get to ... it and you're learning a lot of new things. But it's not like you ... getting an education from the University of Chicago, which is not a school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to ... glimpse at my jobs spreadsheet. i had shortlisted and applied to most of ... relevant experience for. A lot of people shoot their shot at literally every

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  at the connotation of "creativity" from a new angle (in a sense, be ... system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... offering a new dining plan, in which you are paid money in exchange for ... continuous slow breeze at your back, and it smells of cinnamon and ozone. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... minutes after class, one of the Pre-Calc kids was at the board, while I sat ... teacher side of things: I go to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6:30. I improvise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... the side of Goodale (the northeast corner of East Campus):  

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  sedentary and cold. My last dragon at MIT was my finals dragon, about two months ago. Because I’m a senior all but one of my finals were ... of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  . Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  from the University of Waterloo, whose academic program alternates four ... trampled in the mass of hundreds of engineers and interns champing at ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... part of being alive at this time is that our youth have taken up with so ... A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  good at math. My personality consisted of being good at math and enjoying ... enough that I could still think of myself as being good at math, and I ... know dozens of people here at MIT who went to the IMO. I now know dozens

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even ... even at a time of social distancing and fear, humanity is real:  MIT ... immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  range estimation and entering the second quarter of my time at MIT. I ... media studies (CMS) department sits at the forefront of the field as one ... protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  had a similar idea, and both of us e-mailed the powers at be (Dave) and ... flags at the top to give them similar angles, and then tape the back of ... anybody within a 30 foot radius of me had heard me yelling at the President

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

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

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... ’s the right way to teach the product design process. At the beginning of ... front of several failed laser cutting attempts that took me at least 6

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  me before. But at the same time, I realized that in the midst of my ... out there, then I'm making good use of my time at MIT and it would prove ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019