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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  universe, etc.) even though we're thousands of miles apart (she grew up in ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  from the University of Waterloo, whose academic program alternates four ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... next morning. Yes, this is totally awesome. It reminds me of MIT. It also

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to ... of job offers, but honestly, most people around me are in the same ... end of the semester. Last year, I had my offer from PlayStation by the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to ...  have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  wrong area. Many colleges and universities value multiple forms of ... college or university because they are likely to both take advantage of the ... the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling ... of june has felt like a blur. i don’t feel like anything really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree ... year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  version of 6.006 to tech professionals and university students in Addis ... university. They wanted to have a sort of base, similar to Mekele University ... universities near Muti that could cooperate with Drop of Water. We were then put

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  extremes of thirty degrees. we headed against the wind, tacking back and ... one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ...   Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  bouquet, Or offer a market assessment, Of the future of Valentine's Day. We ... . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true

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

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019