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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• 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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to ... summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  this summer, I decided to get involved in helping produce the next ... - features. Keep in mind that this guide is just an introduction; I chose to ... Harvard-Yale football game to many more. (2) An inelegant shortcut to get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... in common, from nerdy interests to growing up near Seattle to being ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a ... you to get to the food in time. When you reach the student center ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday's memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we'll take another step in getting back to normal. Tonight is the annual MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of ... : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and ... programme in this front page, yet later in the catalog we get the spelling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  start getting up in arms about not getting to stay at MIT, keep in mind ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... admissions is figuring out WHY you want to put yourself through grad school in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... to get work done doesn’t reflect whether or not things are okay in my ... . How to do growth accounting Learned this in 14.05, the intermediate

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note ... line of progress from point A to B. In some angles, it looks like an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without ... . They try to remember their students’ names and passions. We get a ... obstacle to attain victory in a glorious prank war. And a friend who listened

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  ?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin ... 'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me ... get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could ... education affords me opportunities to affect my surroundings in ways I

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

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... also super convenient to many, such as those who require more food in a ... suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015