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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  , with a few hairpin turns thrown in for good measure. It's accepting being ... I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  ="i.e. an average"]"mean"[/annotation] between extremes; for example, courage ... question for a few years now, which is essentially other people. I wrote in ... for me are friendships that are inherently virtuous, or, in a less

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where teams are presented with an opportunity to come up with an idea and ... , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• 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

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... somehow surviving the treacherous Boston weather. Being an MIT student, he ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  've been immersed in this place for six months. You’re probably sick of ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  he'd recommended me for a customer support job in what would become the ... building to make Facebook better, and I realized that, in an alternate ... them as well as we can in the moment. He asked me what I would tell an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... school in the MIT area to observe and assist with a STEM class for ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  studied harder for a test than you ever have in your life, maybe, and ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... think: all the advice in the world couldn't persuade stubborn me to take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  commit is to "bring into danger by an irrevocable preliminary act", and in ... -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put ... lives in my head, or spend enough time splaying my life for them, or that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... huge tubs of Toscanini’s ice cream. Back in our original meeting room, we

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  still) I was alone in my room with my dog on my bed. I had her there for ... send his email now for optimal results. I had to pull an all nighter to ... myself in. When I told her, she was super excited and jumped with me for a

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

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So ... application, send it in, and then wait for the answer. I know the waiting sucks ... So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for ... -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this ... work-around using an arduino, but this was passed over in favor of a pi

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  better. For many, MIT will be the first time in your life when you really need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that ... what works for you in terms of remembering events/due dates. I've never

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... perfect grades aren't the only thing worth considering in an application ... admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I ... .48/24.08: Philosophical Issues in Brain Science 9.49: Neural Circuits for Cognition 9 ... considered majoring in (sorry courses 15 and 22). Congrats for making it to the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise. Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... outline of what to expect when we arrived: how to check in, where to go for ... coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023