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• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... things I had done to keep myself occupied in the summer, though it was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... what I am majoring in? Why do I exist? I lost hope. I started to see no

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  opportunity to participate in a beginner-level appropriate competitive match to ... , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it ... prospective students. Here is what he said: Try to keep things in perspective

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the ... , but honored. We all just had such a great time getting to work together

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... clothesline in the backyard to dry in the sun over the course of days. Rainy ... navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

    Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We ... confused that they managed to get Simmons right but somehow messed up the MIT ... and machine shops) we could film in, and sent many many emails to many

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... to be [annotation note="in Greek, eudaimonia. this is the standard ... made sure I stayed on track or close to on track each week. I turned in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the ... different tables to choose from Cons outlets in weird areas can be loud

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don ... props are fun. I was reluctant to get robes at first, but some generous

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we work in the cleanroom to design and fabricate our own nanotechnology

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... interested in airplanes than spacecraft. Three years ago, I planned to graduate ... -year-old high school senior planning to graduate and major in computer science at

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

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  told me to come down. So I put all my things in the locker and ran to the ... nights when I didn’t even want to think about walking across campus to get ... to a video of students who celebrated the capture in the streets of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  hanging a bicycle using the fridge as a prop to get it up in the air." They ... that all the things left behind in this room won't get passed down to ... Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022