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• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February ... need to; I would only consider this if you were planning to do so during ... advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... times as long. Also, because a sleeper car would cost upwards of $1,000, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... .033, we finished 6.036 grading in four hours, and i fit everything in my ... haven't seen in a while was visiting boston. since i had nothing scheduled

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  . in honor of this re-realization, i decided to document all of the fun ... ="and david bowie died before i had enough money to go see him in a concert ... hampshire retreat watched season 5 in one sitting, and then i watched seasons

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror ... this, and so much more?— When the blogs were created in 2004, the i ... apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  . Even if none of these things were true, I would recommend that everyone ... grade in the class, or my bitching about all-nighters, that I thought this ... 6 people. I have friends in Courses 2 (MechE), 3 (Materials), 6 (EECS

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and ... year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  anything that felt off. Every once in a while, I would begin to feel hopeful ... do. And I was so afraid that we would forget him. And, in some ways, we ... ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me ... drawing I must preface that I never thought of myself as a drawer. In fact ... my mind—so clear, they felt real—but they would get lost in translation

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since ... 's people who've been in the industry for decades now. I can't imagine that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby ... (104 degrees over the weekend, in my new Fahrenheit vocabulary. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  a viable option for myself. What would I even do in a gap year during ... student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... to fit in with. Coming to MIT, though, proved me completely wrong. I ... sleeping when Pitch Perfect finished (around 2), I stayed up until 6 in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  , you can't write that down You know I tool, it's there in black and white ... grade is comprised of 4 exams. I've been getting A-'s in the exams in that ... " entry - I just got confirmed to be in San Francisco this summer from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  one in class of 09/10 who is from india??i am sure there would be many ... me look bad. =P I've copy-pasted all his answers into this post, in ... forum on ther MIT site but didn't succed...:( i would like to speak with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  there’s a level of raw truth in that statement. A kind of truth that I ... environment, not the flower.” And while I’ve always found value in those words, I don’t entirely agree anymore. Our environments and experiences in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  take classes in course one, I realized I would definitely get the ... office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... traveling to Ghana, I got more excited about planning. Many people in Ghana

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Florence!   So I don't know if you could tell, but I was teaching in Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs ... 't blame the polar vortex, this time it was all me. In the JFK layover, I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  thought of where I would be if I had chosen the fork in the road marked ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook ... obvious, I would think, is that I'm not even actually serious about becoming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008