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  50 Reflections

  

  Hello old friends. The blogs are turning ten years old today, and ... the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade ... offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever Pandora has queued up for us, sipping homemade sweet tea and tossing ideas ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  taught the best classes while finishing my undergraduate degree, and along ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  , does: it has options on which state to move to, and it could move between ... ’ll call U, and my return flight to the Philippines had a connection through ... new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... Attending MIT. MEETING PEOPLE AND DOING THINGS When exchanging phone numbers: save people’s names with how you met them and how you relationally know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs ... off that way regardless.) I'm Cam, your newest (and slowest, but I ... here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or ... Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood's new policy, which states that "walking and ... states and municipalities competing for federal highway funds to include

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  different states visiting different graduate schools, and realized that home ... would do all three and still graduate with two degrees. (Yes, I failed a ... This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I ... decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you want, and balance money, passion, and family however you want. Next year

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do ... about two questions: why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT, and why I was keen to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  Context and Anna's Being "Qualified" For MIT, as well as conversations (good and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere ... minority / from a rural state / an athlete / an artist / a traveling magician

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger, I’ve written about this before (here , here, and here), but I thought ... classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in postwar Canada") The Kansas and Colorado State Boards of Education ("for ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

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

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  , unspringy mattress involved creaking wood and 45-degree wobbling. I had about ... hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best ... from sheer exhaustion, found out that minesweeper and tetris can be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• 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 / About Decisions

  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

  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