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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that amazing (and actually I'm not sure it would have been possible even if I did ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015 ... spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... with friends, taking advantage of suddenly-open afternoons. i would see

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... late, so I quickly checked in two of my luggage bags, hugged my uncle and ... non-checked-in-bags onto the conveyor belt that would glide through the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  PIECE????????? (i spent a considerable amount of time in my formative ... life would have been like had I been born into a different century ... , I was looking for people in history with whom I can personally

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  this, but I would probably start here, or by getting in touch with ... Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... really, really flattered, the entry I wish everyone would read is More Than ... inspiring. I remember thinking: in 2004, the greatest technology school in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . Printers would only print in black and white. Face paint and makeup would simply be made in only dark, or light. There would only be black and white ... in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... . Mainly, I just thought this would be fun to read (since you all want to know more about the bloggers, right?!?!) and I thought it would be cool

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  they wish the HASS requirements would just disappear, but the lesson I ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic ... theirs. This post has been several months in the making, as I navigate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... , I apologize again, and I would still like a reasonably good grade once

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  that I would love to talk about in future blog posts! All in all ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection ... though! In Cambridge, I also fell in love with the history and beautiful

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  rather than entrepreneurial, in which case I imagine it would be less of a ... In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

    In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... showing different reflections making me question and reaffirm who I am. In

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed ... HP7; the last time it ran was in 2011. And it's the first ten-day I ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  thinking about how I would approach these essays. Although nothing here is ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look ... things like creative projects or creative inventions. I would investigate

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... seem.” Beyond the college admissions process, I would say that this is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  , and because I think those two go hand in hand anyway. I’ll largely put ... since I was nine years old. Back in elementary and middle school it meant ... papers that really disturbed me. This reaction, I would say, was both due

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling ... the sting felt tangible in a way I hadn’t felt in a while. “Why don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll ... ! --------------------------------------------------------------- It's not just the MIT node... I'm in Ohio and I'm getting the same ... , actually, here's the backstory, then the story. Back in July 2006 there was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008