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

  

  you don't get personal attention at research universities? I leave with ... '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

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... -shelf collection of science fiction” at the MIT Science Fiction Society Library ... also get an experience of a contrasting culture and learning style. At

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe ... because my mind was swarmed with thoughts, thoughts of what my decision

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  ready at the same time. Everyone has a spell hand of around 3 to 4, and ... One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... study all day, or simply neurotic overachievers. At the risk of violating ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to

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

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... part 2: yarn art hi-res rendering of the board or if you're ever at MIT ... your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  up at the mention of cell biology, how you were five minutes late ... , but at least it's fair. (And by fair I mean fair in the context of the ... (just ask the senior staff) but at the end of the day, a committee

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  years of MIT before I actually decided to look at the entire course ... At MIT, we have pre-registration as well as regular registration ... different from most other universities where you register several weeks or

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  three-course meal cook-off at the end of July, which would be judged by my ... mostly a product of his environment and upbringing, he still, at the very ... . Desserts offer more flexibility in terms of color and textures, and after

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... life that shock you into the reality of the situation, and you wake up at

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors ... that the road ended so abruptly -- a two-hour Zoom call at the end of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  feminist rant at you, I'll give you a “well, sort of,” because calling out ... University of Berlin falsely told participants that they had been selected to ... women in math: research at Indiana University found that females

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number” applications that could often be appealing at first glance, but ultimately turn ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at ... are late at night. You have the rest of high school to sleep. K: Truth ... 30% of women at MIT are affiliated. Throw out everything you've ever

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... world, take risks, try new things. I wanted to be at MIT. And so, I ... plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  descriptively incorrect. At its most basic form, it's a variant of post hoc ergo ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  of our living group. The entire time, I could only marvel at how ... inevitably be split up at the end of the year. It also was incredibly ... at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  MIT. Literally. At the beginning of the semester, when I finally stopped ... . Towards the end of the conversation, he glanced at his watch and gave me one ... presentation. All of them turned to look at me. The terror that Dumbledore could

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at ... years I’ve been at MIT, I haven’t become any less of an introvert, with ... , the guaranteed hard times at MIT mean that the depth of friendships will

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012