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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  what works for you in terms of remembering events/due dates. I've never ... turn it in for the benefit of the graders :P). In retrospect, HAHAHA I ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  still tell my friends about that conversation. I can still use it in ... ). But, beware of the ageing process—most seniors I know can no longer pull ... (I can talk about the neuroscience of this for hours, so I’ll stop here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1 ... proportion of international students in a U.S. institution. In a 1917 Boston

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  without expending an unreasonable amount of time."]buy it,[/annotation] I ... all this food to myself. I like to [annotation note="In the beginning of ... in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... things I didn’t know I was interested in. I wanted to learn about all of them. I wanted to take all of them! Part of me wished that I was back in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  TSP, and hence [annotation note='I learned some of this in 6.854, an ... a good while. In the meantime, I get some pictures of the trains that ... least one mistake in all of these maps, see if you can find it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  that kind of attention. In a moment of grave seriousness, I’ll say it has ... for the beauty of it, but I recognize math as a tool to be used in ... ? The point of all of this. Hopefully, I might learn a thing or two in the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
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  50 Reflections

  

  words, I think MIT can take much of the credit for the shift we've seen on ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  SHALL BE EATEN. If I live in EC, am I at risk of being eaten when I ... . '17.) I can only hope that you do read through parts of the site, and ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• 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 ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self ... had just lost a game of Pac-Man. For a fleeting second, it was all I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  people sat in it over the course of a week it sagged a lot more than I ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can ... of our rooms, and no AC in the other, so I took a few plates from the ... home. I always find the first week of summer very exhausting in the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in ... with bending and how they can work in harmony or clash, and I love the ... watched talks about this in the context of America, and I think everyone

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... defeated in a lot of ways. My grades in a lot of classes weren't what I ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... because I made someone disappointed in me. I felt ashamed of my work and the ... living for. In my case, that was the fundamental source of recovery. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... account was actually a terrible idea. I don’t know if I can think of any ... -studied ten of them in total, and got mostly 5s and some 4s. Robby is I guess

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  has changed in the past year. I think that I’ve done a lot of emotional ... myself, I’d be in jail” (from “Girl Named Hello” by of Montreal ... out of touch for periods. I think the main shift in mindset that has

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don ... building a portfolio of work that I'm proud of until I can (maybe) do ... I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The ... ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... excitement and bubbliness, there's insecurity in comments like "I…have NO idea

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013