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

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... the more unsung parts of MIT: People here are very clever. You see

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  aerospace engineering sometime in the mid-2020s.[/annotation] I’m genuinely really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I’ve stayed more or less quiet about the other academic struggles I’ve faced

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design ... . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... date. We were standing outside, staring into the surroundings. “It’s a ... the top of a building. We’re surrounded by the city, but isolated from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried ... boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit

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

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and ... the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1: Learn the building numbers. I would still consider this one incomplete

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... yourself on the back. I know too many people that didn't apply because they were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting ... How I blog - the writing and posting process Whether you should become

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• 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 ... classroom, all my writing involved my cousins or the farm or playing outside ... when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to

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

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of ... mental rotation exercises. “Mental rotation” here refers to the act of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students ... that dream in the sky that I think I wanted more than other dreams in the ... the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto ... them are still bubbling with questions about their dorms, all the buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this

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

  bye (for now)

  

  spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole cap-and-gown thing with the 2018s in june. as far as endings go, the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  exactly what they’re doing. :’’) Not me. I entered MIT with the vague ... , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the ... lectures and labs. I didn’t think the material seemed personally appealing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  (Keep voting, guys! Remember, the poll closes at midnight PST on ... , Burton-Conner's internet went out. Somewhat analogous to the power outage days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015