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

  

  , and BTS. I main Ashe in Overwatch. I love chemistry and biology. I have a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... week. BTS owns me and could hit me with their tour bus and I'd say thank

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

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  interviewed Chris E. '21 and Alex H., Florida State '21, and they were teaching ... post about Splash. And this'll be a post about Summer HSSP, which is a similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after ... internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... internships that are available, and also the ones that are most relevant to me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ;/impressively></p> <p>AND Now, Ladies And Gentlemen, For Your Viewing Pleasure ... of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... . Spelling out "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" takes a while. Nowadays

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live today. I've written two blogs about it already, “A Story About Muti” and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  like i am at my limit, that i have overcommitted this summer, and that ... , this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in ... . somehow, the past month has felt simultaneously tortuous and unrewarding, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ... ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... this post so late? I was busy, okay."]November 23 and 24,[/annotation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn't just because it had difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I ... either and are primarily interested in business, or architecture, or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  laptops that MIT recommends: Macs, Dells, and Thinkpads. I’ve seen MIT students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first computer was an IBM Thinkpad T27 and my second computer was an IBM ThinkPad R

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  why my site is advertised as sam.mitblogs.com and yet consists pretty ... landmarks. Well, here's why. So I got to MIT three years ago and I found out ... foreign countries like Japan and China, so they end up taking those

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  and Brazilian descent. So every year the senior class sponsors a really ... , Bryan had the awesome idea that he, Mitra, and I would go as i^, j^, and k ... some other engagement that he found more pressing. Suddenly, Mitra and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this video, made with love (though with poor video editing skills) and I hope

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... senior year of high school, and everything that came with it - classes, activities, tests, applications, decisions... If I look back and remember

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT ... and departments, flame wars, and occasionally lost items. In contrast

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Science and Engineering, assigned it as one our journal club readings.) an

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016