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  “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…

  

  protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a ... /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot of students are gapping this year, and others are considering taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  Together - A conglomeration of all the resources that MIT has to offer in one ... Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and ... . Anxiety is an overwhelming flow of feelings within and around oneself. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It ... teachers teaching 504 classes. And two thousand is a lot of people. For

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... colleges - not such a good idea. it's tiring, it costs a ridiculous sum of ... with the college essay. Ever walk into a shop with one of those glass

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... I am. All of that stuff is mostly true. I do like music! I bake every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a ... every student's full financial need. MIT is one of only a handful of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• 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 ... a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors

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

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... panorama of my door, also attached.   YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were ... professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... , and a bunch of awestruck students breathlessly explained, "OH, he came

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• 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 ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

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

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  need help but the kind of help they can offer is not exactly the help I ... note="It's one of those fox, chicken, bag of corn problems. Dog 1 is old ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt ... something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now, with my last final of my freshman year tomorrow, I am now a computer ... me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend ... the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... of time reading alone. My amazing, very human, non-pizza colleagues and I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019