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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  from all the times I fell on my poor, poor bottom, and I'm pretty sure ... back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I ... snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  on Hamsika's blog about the Boston Globe special feature on MIT and ... pretty epic list! What will you do to make it on the MIT 200 retrospective?

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... on these small essays. Essentially, you have 5 "mini-essays" - What ... that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four ... ="depending on how you frame the situation, the General Institute Requirements ... paragraph on why. Why follow this advice? I have two reasons: first, having a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  steep slopes on narrow brick and stone streets; it is hidden alleyways ... facing the street. I am sharing it with you because 1. There is a store on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  /musing on the topic, I’ve gotten a bit closer to an answer, but the same sort ... was making them. It was kind of like I was “trying on” all these ... necessarily looking to work on third-world water purification, either. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  have received on Sunday. We all say that it will get better, that you ... “no”, wishing that something had gone differently, sad that you’re on ... way you wanted. My first graduate school application came back on my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... absorbed into a world on paper. College has effectively eaten up the ... another HASS class to take and landed on CMS.840, which I initially didn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  to drive with my dad on a two-lane highway, stick shift, farms on ... before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of

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

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... cohort[/annotation]to reflect on their experience. I’m sharing the ... involved on campus, taking on roles in my dorm and in clubs, and found a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  nice. Unfortunately, these are not recent photos. No snow lies on this ... two photos are from Valentine's Day 2013, during my first time on MIT ... . While I’d like to blog (both on here and not), I haven’t been. Finding

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  crying” on the symptom list and the nurse got really confused and told me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges ... inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On ... ="Taken as the average class size listed on firehose.guide"]size of the class

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  NOW I AM FACING THE GUILT HEAD ON. TAKE THAT, GUILT.) However, I'm a ... brain and in my hands and on my paper and on my computer screen. That ... to help nudge me along on adventures and help find warm food for my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... impressive model of what we wanted to build. On the day of the event... My ... our materials, we moved on to figuring out the general dimensions we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... fast approaching, so I hastily worked on my Common Application, and sent ... fear precipitated by the high scores on the reject threads, and the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  me feel like this: (p.s. you should all go waste some time on this ... held on to the idea that they wanted to make a difference. They inspired ... pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  don’t like that they admit students based on factors other than merit ... before, not on this level. It’s not uncommon feel like you were admitted by ... : even when I was hard on myself, and when I didn’t know why I’d been

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015