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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  the Green Building flicker in your peripheral vision. You can’t tell if ... Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... nasty habit to talk in absolutes. I'm guilty of this to. They say things ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• 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 ... MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from

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

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  words, which I think means storm surge. It's in line with sigwa, a violent ... window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry ... , from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  wonderful experience, and I wanted to continue in a broader capacity. Paolo ... impacts on life at MIT. As students, we can literally be in the room where ... -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... have UBER simplified some genetics concepts in this explanation. I want ... Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even ... Twitter and read the rest of the replies. In response, I tweeted that ... can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... "diverse" or "confused about goals"?   In the past week, I have read ... 're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  . You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• 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 ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... in the lab full-time doing research. Eventually I'll finish the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... 's been a while since I did this. Just writing. The words are clunky in my ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... happy, encouraging; they will reflect the growth I've felt in the corners ... been extremely difficult, in ways that I both could and could not foresee

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body ... mind around in circles. (Because! I'm! actually! just! screaming

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  rest can be found in the MIT Libraries. Articles from The Tech ... Technology, which can be found in the MIT Libraries’ Institute Archives and Special Collections. A map of the 1924 campus layout can be found in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011