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• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  his mom, when he won second place in a local filmmaking competition for his very first documentary. Of course, I would have loved his ... in including these as well. I echo the sentiments of a commenter on the

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  fare. So here I am, riding along through Central Square. I’m in the ... and started riding again. Otherwise I would’ve been late. Turns out ... 16 or younger, so I would’ve gotten off with just a scolding. But I won

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... it more together than me). Worry #2: I became less sure I would fit in ... engineering department, but it’s just not something I would like to major in, so

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  I was in lab on June 9. Welcome to graduate school! (I actually chose ... tissue engineering applications. Aside from my time in lab, I've been ... -- SAILING! I officially start graduate school in a week pursuing my PhD in

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped ... company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in ... rises, I can spot the hills in the distance. One day, I’ll snap out of my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... what?" "I dunno, seven.. meaningful things." With that helpful advice in ... decided that I would eat seven different meals at seven new and different

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all ... would be staying for the whole winter break. So I braced myself for winter ... Philippine Mathematical Olympiad, I wrote problems for our National Olympiad in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  -white (but still mostly white) gangster I can manage, and join in. That's right, I actually ran out in front of my entire dorm and started dancing ... conga line that tricked me by disbanding right as I was in the middle of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... . Having you in the class would have made it no less perfect. But the numbers

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If not, feel free to ask me questions (which I'm sure other bloggers would

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so ... . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is ... need to; I would only consider this if you were planning to do so during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes ... because I've been able to learn more about the force distributions in ... 's really funny is that in high school, I actually didn't like physics that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  looks like it would be berry-flavored! At least two people I know have ... drinking blood would be like… RPMI [annotation note="I never knew you ... , so I would recommend that you not anger your own cells by drinking this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn ... m. After moving on campus recently and seeing people in 3D, I'm hoping ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  compass in their pockets. While I didn't get as involved as I would have ... shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  had no idea what it actually entailed. I just got in the uber and ended up somewhere in Boston with a ticket. When we sat down I asked someone ... thankfully in English and adapted to make more sense in modern times, and I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time doing. I waited because I naively hoped that life would settle down into a ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  being is I convinced myself that I will spend my time that I would be in ... honestly something I have not yet mastered hahaha. When I was in high school I was like, “College students have like 3 classes a day that start in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  . Plus I got to meet Bryan in real life, and he promised he would organize ... Well, apparently I touched a nerve with my last entry -- sounds like ... 're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that ... exam, but a few exams along the way. I would’ve failed another class, if ... . I cried a lot, often in my room or empty classrooms on campus, with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023