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  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... topic of women in engineering, and I might not have exactly the opinions that you might assume. In any case, you can read lots of other people

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  getting C's (and by C's I mean P's) in all of my classes, and I feel that I ... . I'm discovering something about sophomore year, well, a lot of things ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  through my metaphorical wings of adulthood too. I can eat ice cream for ... I am currently a ball of feelings. Some people might call me an emotional wreck, but I think it’s just something that comes with being in a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  with a friend." " In my moments of clarity I can ask myself what ... hours of bliss in Photoshop, above. Shameless plug: I'll be selling prints ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  can and cannot leave behind. I’ve realized over the past year that some ... to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and reestablish some continuity of self—to read, to go for walks, to look people in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, who received his PhD in ... -sensing contact lens that has a little patch of color that changes in response to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  ’ve failed the swim test in front of an awkward crowd. Then I’d delay it until ... ballpark in MLB. Having just sort of learned about softball, I mostly ... not for anyone who participated. That hurt for a couple of days—"If I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can ... I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... majority of this mailing's contents can be found here and here, so if you

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self ... going. She passed away, finally, in our house on a hill in Kafa. I can ... fall into the category of “treatable”, but this is what I do to myself in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  of people of color, I need to spend as much time as I can in high ... best for each and every one of these people in my life. I want the world ... of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  friends. Go me!"]and[/annotation] all I can do is take the path of least ... . I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... disrupted, but I can't look ahead to its resumption: I have no idea what will

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  discussion of the tasks. Everyone in grades 5-12 can participate, regardless ... International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of ... Bebras' focus on accessibility, both in terms of geographic outreach but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  ways… Last July, I was sitting in front of my computer at work ... ’d be interested in becoming a content creator for OLW. Of course, I ... of their responses. In the meantime, you can visit OpenLabWare’s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  less when you're out there in it. because that's really all any of us can ... covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the occasion of their graduation. I told how ambivalent I felt (about myself

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  production of Man of La Mancha and I got seated right behind the sound board ... . It was then that I decided I wanted to do theater in high school. So after four years of high school theater I was pleased to find that MIT had

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  percolates through the autumn leaves in the Yard. I’m listening to Stevie ... :30 → In discussion section, we discuss an inflammatory article in defense of ... double check myself every time I speak in this class. It’s a new experience

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and ... , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a ... before, and you can see a more complete history here, but I thought it'd be

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  , and that's definitely been reflected in some of the music I've been ... Hello World! I haven't posted in a while - life has been busy ... might have guessed, I'm in that chair pretty often! I've been spending a

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  email me and I can try to get you in contact ^_^)     ... editor of its Campus Life section. I am planning on minoring in writing ... sitting in that room, I felt so grateful for this hidden gem of MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  around MIT and take a video of myself staying stuff I guess. I’m surprised there aren’t more of these kinds of videos floating around online; I ... haven’t actually given an admissions tour in a long time. I ended up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020