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  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  so well within a career that is still considered to be male ... of those hard enough? I didn’t give myself a reason to step up, but ... I needed to apply. Just a little jolt of confidence can really go a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and ... , expecting a different type of entry and wanting to know more and more about ... such, It's time for me to shift my writing a bit. You'll notice fewer and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person—a ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant ... alone, and we think that is great. You do not need to submit a portfolio

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a ... beginning on campus [annotation note="I am literally on a plane headed back to ... time. People talk a lot about how important your living group is to your

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  it was to find people to click with who were at a more advanced stage ... came, I was grateful to have that support network there; a little ... University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of ... best friends and I had a pact: go to Stanford. We famously donned

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  . emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a ... my comfort zone. For teaching me to relax more once in a while, to ... impossible to achieve such a range of activities even in the long life-span we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  -Based Organizations (CBOs): visits to CBOs, which may work with students from a region ... traveled to Southern California. I spent a week driving all over the region ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  . When reading applications, we try our best to get a good sense of the ... a great starting point for us (and for you) to understand the size of ... it is like to live in a rural area or a small town (even though I do

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization ... , educa-tional, and labor. There is a concerted effort to increase the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  into lalaland’ (the way that a line tangent to a circle moves with the ... : ‘There exists’ is just a fancy way to say ‘there is,’ while simultaneously making the syntax way more complicated than necessary. It’s just a way to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was ... semester 21W.758 was a class that covered a multitude of genres but stuck to ... transitioned to comics by deciding, after drawing Demonology 101, that was a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... heart palpitations (yes, this is a not-even-slightly-veiled reference to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  during term). I ended up with a B+ in my HASS (9.00, intro to psychology ... -- is there a good chance that I'll be able to get the HASS-D course I ... a few people who decide not to take the class, so it's worth showing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  , to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to ... situation. For a month, my father would try to call home only to get an ... of the people I refer to as “international”, though, have a very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry. I came to MIT wanting to be a mechanical engineer. I love building

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT, slightly over a year ... . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job, delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was ... was just… there.  during winter break, i went to new york city for a ... at MIT and coming back, i would come to a constant.  during

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  , so I moved to Tetazoo, home of yet another blogger. I had a good time ... decided about a week ago to go ahead and do it. My decision process went ... to split the cost of a Zipcar, move my stuff back to Burton-Conner, and

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers ... opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to ... on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021