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• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  to selective schools - or, at the very least, if you're thinking of ... Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which ... November 1st, amidst all the chaos and uncertainty of life, I have a new ... were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  a heart with the bottle-opening tab at the crux of the heart. Getting ... few examples of modern blacksmithing, ranging from the "new and ... analysis of the sword at the beginning. When I finished the hilt and roughed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  my roommate. We started the first season at the beginning of the summer ... [/annotation]. And that’s life so far in Austin! It’s full of parks, rivers, new ... of a road to learning something new is always bumpy. Learning Solid

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  amount of joy and relief after the Obergefell decision in 2015. At the time ... , however, the situation was obvious. I was bi, or, at the very least, out of ... school, about half of my friend group was out as queer. That was neat, at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful ... , I like the name "Interstellar" a lot. So many of the things we use at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the ... among friends, much less at a table full of strangers. I always ask people ... of the returners at my table are forthcoming about why they left. Some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  . There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online ... – it’s like a bizarro-version of the MIT I remember. There’s plenty new ... that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  clubbing, queer stand-up comedy, and my new hobby. These are the kinds of ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  exhausting, so I remove my media and pour 59 new plates of agar. I go a little ... sequence analyzers, is new and better than what is available at MIT". Do you ... this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a ... media studies, at just about 50 pages of double-spaced garamond, was the ... cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... first day of class at MIT--at least for now. Far from knowing everything

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... '6' for shorter)) has been appointed as new Chancellor! This is no ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... stamina left. This isn’t particularly new, the sort of post-exam hosedness ... me of who I am at my best, and ~30 days left of IHTFP, am I able to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  . 41. Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It ... I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students ... I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... 's drinking water from a bottle of what was once "Cloudy Apple"* juice. *Yeah

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... kids. kids who start their own businesses at nineteen, twenty years old ... ’re just kids. our jokes are a mix of violence and bathroom humor and we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... belong. At the same time I’m miserable, sometimes. IHTFP is the middle of ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  asylum, and one of them was e^x. The other mathematician was angry at e ... jabs at a school of other learned human beings? Teachers often invite ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  of them at once from the baggage-claim room to outside the airport ... to Random, and wished me the best of luck at MIT. The world needs more ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013