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  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of Dance. My voice unconsciously rises far too often, and sometimes I realize

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  state-mandated labour. And the apprehension I had in Tel Aviv – that too ... , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for ... morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an

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

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

  

  hear back on an offer. However, it is stressful to go on LinkedIn and see ... ,[/annotation] and I was intending to have an offer even earlier this year, but it ... thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  universally. Only best and worst for you. So please, please, please please form ... incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  building, and she was kind enough to offer me a few square feet for the ... project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and ... exercise. I've written about grad school and/as the Boston marathon, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ourselves with Arduino and C++ by incorporating a basic state machine ... display the maze into the state machine of the alarm clock and added a ... big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  She worked so hard and got into all the state schools she applied to ... Hopkins and Brown and Dartmouth rejected her, and she was offered the ... internships, and of the 20+ gigs I applied to, I got one offer, six rejections

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  decisions that year. The article states that "women and minority students may ... held virtually this year, and there's a large CPW Discord server where ... started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by

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

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims ... Missouri, and I enjoyed the peace, friendliness, and comfort that came with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  ’d gotten from my computer science classes and general institute requirements ... research in Germany, first at his hometown university and then at G ... , and geometry.) The math CI-Ms are small classes, taught almost

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ ... part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... , Smith, Wellesley, Wheaton, Mount Holyoke, WPI, and of course MIT. After

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Instruments Company and diagonally across from the "old dormitories ... built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be ... christened together, and the '93 Dormitory would henceforth be known as

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  undergrad institution with one of those friends back in high school and ... my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I'm constantly asking my fellow admissions officers and student tour guides for

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  try to explain: Pre-registration opens very early, and regular ... different from most other universities where you register several weeks or ... to take and helping the administrators figure out how popular classes

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  state of mind, all like, “Okay, this is what’s happening, p-sets and ... , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This didn’t manifest any more than just a weird feeling swooshing around, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  version of 6.006 to tech professionals and university students in Addis ... call with the president of Mizan-Tepi University, and clarified some ... , so I missed a good deal before and after winter break. I wrote and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  (2) It was amazing to learn about the universe in a fun and ... .177: Astrobiology, Origins and Early Evolution of Life (1) It's not offered this ... listing 205 classes and why they loved that specific class. Here is a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  . This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and ... regard, and I acknowledge how radical my thinking might seem. Recently, I ... a distinction between submitting an application and trying to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011