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  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... some autumn pieces of our cozy quiet neighborhood—closer to Harvard than ... both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy ... AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last ... understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate ... up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just (maybe)barely totaled 56/120. This is 6.046, Design and Analysis of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  'skills' section of my resume, so it doesn't look so empty?" Other Freshman ... womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  tolerable for our floor by preparing one of Conner 2's patented senior finals ... breakfast for the rest of the floor on the first day of finals. Since we can ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... complete the race and ethnicity section of the MIT admission application

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... people are interested in this question, I find it decidedly odd... sort of ... shortage of breathable O2, I've never experienced discrimination as a female

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... Prize, alongside such distinguished visionaries as Steve Penfold of York

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  express themselves. Below you'll find accounts of six very different rooms ... a team of hair and makeup artists, as well as relaxing in their personal trailers parked outside of their rooms. No, actually I just ran

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built a beautiful shrine with linkedin pictures of all of our visitors faces pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

    a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... ;   ♫Feels something like summertime Classe are over in a matter of time ... little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014