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  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... students who came to the Institute despite historical and geographical ... Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  of getting into a selective university is a clear and validating ... universities. I emailed some professors, and I don’t remember anyone responding ... age and attended the same university but weren’t as successful. I really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  -maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and ... major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply ... elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  replication and protein synthesis! My postdoc and I discuss the state of our ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce ... smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the ... and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is ... had to observe each of them carefully and offer feedback between laps

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  said "And now, the President of the United States, Barack Obama!" (not an ... 's unit? Unless he officially rebukes this and offers an alternative unit ... , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery ... collaboration with dietitians from Boston area universities and health centers a ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  : That was East Campus, video by and courtesy of Eric Lujan ‘19, screaming ... EC Gothic, authored by East Campus, the residents and the mailing list ... decipher these, and to distinguish the truth from the fiction. Maybe you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  negative ridiculous degrees outside, plus wind chill. And so I weighed the ... , because it's again negative ridiculous degrees outside, and the rest of the ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  's castle. And not just a tour through a stately gothic castle, but a long and ... degrees and your bare feet are sizzling on the pavement and you're sprinting ... emerging on the other side with friends and a degree. —fray getting a nice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  contest held by the United States Treasury and the grand prize was getting ... public science and engineering magnet high school that runs an annual admission exam and accepts the top scoring kid(s) from each town in our

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... and out-of-state schools to give myself the option to leave home if I ... against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... gender bias) and use our institutional power to actively resist using AI in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him ... offered and at the same time. He was talking about the things they were ... instructive, that we often refer to universities as 'institutions.' Though that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  attend Ivies and top state universities and small liberal arts colleges and ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  about the nature of the universe and all that. I’m considering Econ ... major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... -3.” “17 and something else?” *loud sigh* *spontaneous combustion* “Course

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  like to mentally split my workload into “steady-state” and “anomalous” categories. Steady-state work is recurring and regular: things like lectures ... in the steady-state category. Assignments are pushed and flushed from

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and ... words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture, with unambiguous and precise meanings. But to my friends and even, to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008