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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up again. People are giving helpful suggestions and input. The [annotation

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

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live today. I've written two blogs about it already, “A Story About Muti” and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed sometimes is really because premeds get a bad rep as people with no life and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that has been going around tumblr and finally found its way into our corner

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• 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 ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally. I sat on my bed silently. My fingers were numb and my breaths were ... mind had exceeded capacity, and there wasn’t enough oxygen for each

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... to have any until 8pm. I mean, it's issue night and he drew working people (the EIC and myself included) away from the issue! 8:00pm: And it

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  from George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946. ----- So ... . Since then, the application has been revised, and although I still believe ... application looks like (it really doesn't look that different, ha) and I've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  about puzzles, like On puzzles above and below. There’s a lot of non ... begins here Kickoff The first puzzle One puzzle down and more to ... puzzles above and below Searching for something new The last puzzle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• 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 ... so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the ... when it came to the college essay, and so I strove to write an unique

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn't just because it had difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I ... either and are primarily interested in business, or architecture, or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  laptops that MIT recommends: Macs, Dells, and Thinkpads. I’ve seen MIT students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first computer was an IBM Thinkpad T27 and my second computer was an IBM ThinkPad R

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  why my site is advertised as sam.mitblogs.com and yet consists pretty ... landmarks. Well, here's why. So I got to MIT three years ago and I found out ... foreign countries like Japan and China, so they end up taking those

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
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  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  and Brazilian descent. So every year the senior class sponsors a really ... , Bryan had the awesome idea that he, Mitra, and I would go as i^, j^, and k ... some other engagement that he found more pressing. Suddenly, Mitra and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this video, made with love (though with poor video editing skills) and I hope

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... senior year of high school, and everything that came with it - classes, activities, tests, applications, decisions... If I look back and remember

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT ... and departments, flame wars, and occasionally lost items. In contrast

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Science and Engineering, assigned it as one our journal club readings.) an

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016