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  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  Excellent Sheep in high school, and revisited it in college; parts of it ring ... but enjoying the rigor of a physics degree and doubling in 21M and 8 ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when ... person isn’t nearly representative of “what you did in high school,” so it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things, the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about ... will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  stopped and freaked out a few times. grad school has been a dream of mine ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  the company where he works were two of the designers. Adam got really ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... academic policies for incoming first-year students! Starting next school year ... [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  ="one of the undergraduate dorms"]East Campus[/annotation] designs and builds ... treehouse with a dome on top of it designed by Jordan T. ‘25 and Hanu S. ‘26 ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  the hoops of applying to graduate school, you will probably not take a ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  important, because it's these early design decisions that drive months of work.  It's one of my favorite things about product design ... as “tragic” – because “so many of the designers

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  dawn of the decade, I was still in middle school. Halfway through my ... is the top school in my district, and gives a lot of college credits ... . After a week of no school or power, the city finally fixed it. We wore our

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• 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 ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school ... community looks like from the outside. I spent most of my high school days in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -acetylene torch, and chisels. I wound up using all four of these during the design ... . This gave a degree of accuracy to 1mL, or 1g. I would be able to get ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3

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

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  computer science degree and a master's, and is a product designer for Twitch ... , coincidentally, pivoting out of software into design. Fall 2012 to Spring 2013 ... the Musical Theater Guild working on set design. A decent amount of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ...   Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• 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…

  

  of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the ... 'm grateful for the blessing of attending an engineering school whose humanities ... protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011. One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  essentially a rejection. To cope, I focused on all the positives of the schools ... that I was admitted off of the waitlist. Remember, one school does not ... matter where you go to school." Anonymous '16 - "Friends of mine who were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  me to have "a list of no more than 12 schools" ranked by difficulty to ... chose all my schools (including MIT) on a whim. I picked a variety of in-state and out-of-state schools to give myself the option to leave home if I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014