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  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  , applying to jobs and signing offers and in a few cases going to grad school ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the charles, noticing how the smallest shifts in seating rock the boat, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  , and the Wanderer's Library (≈7600 words). Set in the SCP universe, where ... in this honest autobiographical essay. Every story I have ever told has ... ’t quite right. That all the beginnings have endings in them. The Lottery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  warning: violence. Set in the SCP universe, where a titular, secret ... this list, read this. He finds himself sitting in the neighborhood bar ... there for one. In fact, he has finished it. Perhaps he’ll have a second

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  and soak in all that each and every single moment has to offer. Consider ... meal. Polaroids scattered in a half-packed bed room. Late evenings spent in the serenity of the people you've grown up with, the people you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even ... time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  , but first allow me to introduce myself. After growing up in Queens, NY ... mechanical engineer. I went to work for General Motors in Detroit designing ... would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  

  ://decisions.mit.edu. decisions.mit.edu You can log in using the same username and password that you ... in to decisions.mit.edu. Admissions decisions will be available ... or snail mail, as we do not plan to send out admissions decisions in

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior ... graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... GPA in high school to be admitted into MIT (as well as some other selective universities); 2) It seems embarrassing to struggle academically; 3

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science ... professors at the university near home, sent out "cold emails" aka begged

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  -Off in August (read about Summer Send-Off experience here)). Prepare for ... universe, and everything with an awesome group of people and free food! If ... inspired me to then start sorority rush in the fall of freshman year

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  best place in the universe. As for whether that’ll last, who knows? Maybe ... Daniel M. ’14. It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard ... legal?” Crowds stared in awe at the towering EC rollercoaster, which stood

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  about your living situation in spring, and though we can't offer you ... In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  . The following day, I got an email with an offer for a spot in the ... I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or ... friends and I had considered taking part in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group ... country and around the world. Spending time in settings like these is ... in question because educational institutions have abdicated their

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it big. And it looks like people understand that now: my audience in Des

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  of being in a fraternity is visiting chapters at other universities ... in Boston by June 9th for Commencement.   Day 1, Wednesday 5 ... chapter of the University of Washington, nicknamed "Phi Pools". One of our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but ... the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn ... Matter Group in collaboration with MIT's Department of Mechnical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  assembled in my floor lounge singing the original Pok√©mon theme song making its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... , randomly, after turning in an 18.01A pset about a week ago. Certainly, the

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010