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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... at MIT. The program is part of the larger STARS (Small Town and Rural ... Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... . Alden Thresher, the inaugural Director of Admissions at MIT, noted the ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... sustainingly intriguing enough major at MIT or elsewhere. b) If there is such a ... respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  days. I am crossing my fingers that the water is at least 50 degrees C ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... first day of class at MIT--at least for now. Far from knowing everything

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  at seemingly random moments. Yet still, I’m faced with the dread of ... the year a daily user of DeviantArt, a site that at the time was ... sneak out of your snug apartment at midnight, to go somewhere you’ve never

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of ... life that shock you into the reality of the situation, and you wake up at ... thoughts about it, but at the heart of the issue, I think it’s quite simple

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of ... extracurriculars at difficulty levels 95, 70, and 65 out of 100 difficulty points ... . I've spent at least 24 hours of my "off" time applying for summer

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... that a B at MIT wasn't the be-all-end-all of their med school ambitions ... pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... time (you'd be surprised at how much mathematics was involved). Then, of ... out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at ... will at least change the way you think of bikes. "In order to become ... interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  recharge after a couple months of work, but at the end of the day I was still ... slightly embarrassing photo at the top of this post: all of the musical ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... at a whiteboard that proclaimed two hundred dollars’ worth of chips ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in ... took at the same time) formulate a proof. This was a huge amount of ... of power at the intersection of fields. It is valuable to be able to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  mind I must have gained in the past couple of weeks, cringed at some of my essays. To one of them asking why I wanted to be at Penn, I had ... realm of elation separate from mere joy at this achievement, I realized

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars ... blink. There are ResLife workers at the edge of the mudpit. An RLAD shifts

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... belong. At the same time I’m miserable, sometimes. IHTFP is the middle of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012