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• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Facilities, the people who keep MIT running. In 2014, Walter Isaacson ... of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i ... , easily found a way into my heart. in our meetings throughout my first

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  an entire month, because we went in the winter during the dry season ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments.  Throughout the 1880s, +100 women enrolled as students at MIT. In the 1950s

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me

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

  demons on depression

  

  Content warning: depression, emotional abuse, suicide. In the ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to ... covered leopard printed Nike 97s, long black earring, and gold chain was in ... ironed blue slacks, and a brown belt tucking in a semi-buttoned pink and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September ... than ever before, in the form of taking five classes in my first semester ... exactly what you want. October? I have no idea what happened in October

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... , 2013, I was sitting in the Margaret Cheney Room Women’s lounge on the 3rd ... the only thought in my head was “I thought we would have beautiful

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... though my heart is being pulled in too many directions at once. My Pi Day

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve ... different voices in your application and try to immerse ourselves in your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... terms you may hear in college. It also may reference emotionally or ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... answer, because MIT is the community you will spend most of your time in ... , in the comments please let us know if you have other anecdotes to add

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... ’s in, but before that conversation, I viewed him as just that—someone who ... questions about what they wanted to do in life and had as many doubts and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... Office was formally created in 1929, led by the Institute’s first

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to apply to a school like MIT. As Petey wonderfully notes in his infamous ... in the best light possible for competitive college admissions. So as

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four ... fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... around campus and making friends and everything else in-between. Indeed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021