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  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep ... are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... was a lovely phrase, and would often repeat it to myself, saying “we are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... nonstandard criteria - not gpa, etc.?" To borrow a line from my Dean, Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get to know them. Make it a game: try to get a selfie with someone from ... every single day. Not to mention it’s a pretty good incentive to actually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks ... school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... ’t even check that morning since my friends and I were going to a math

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a ... to go to a yoga studio on our way back, so we kept walking to Central

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in astronomy. Fast forward a few weeks, to the New House front desk, where I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with ... a VHS player handy? I’d love to see what’s on this tape."]VHS tape

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer, lots of people I talked to asked me about what startup I was a cofounder ... capitalists and founders" and "a low-code authentication solution". To which my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I ... ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions ... something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of ... refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... around to this topic. I'm loath to write about it because I feel choosing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston. That's actually point number 1: This isn't a very important question to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student, which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of ... professors from my program -- it's considered rude to ask a graduate student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to ... ’d like to take some time to shed a different light on the situation. That ... to have such a great second-family who has spent the past week

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ?" YOU: "Uh...go to med school...." HIM: "Oh, you're a premed?" YOU ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... the day to day? Did she cry over a silly things that I can’t even ... adolescence. At a time where my peers were beginning to learn how to navigate

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020