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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how ... 's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... values and priorities. Maybe we share too much, or are trying too hard to ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “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 ... to physically walk down a specific hallway, or take a specific class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  activities I could only dream of — I was overwhelmed trying to find my place in ... grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly ... !!!!!! In my last semester at MIT, I have finally learned to love myself and I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments ... .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in ... -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... ideas, which were then converted to kits and assembled by students in an ... is heading in. We're forced to explain our progress so far without

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my ... problems. I was ashamed to live in Alabama throughout all of high school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... to be a sounding board and copilot in those years. Matt and I also

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• 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.

  

  to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... . Every senior gets four tickets to give to friends or family for graduation ... similar pics here.) All the graduates-to-be congregated in the Johnson

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

  bye (for now)

  

  in a 24-hour mcdonalds or taking the BART to san francisco to reconnect ... bandwidth to pay attention to them now. a few days after i turned in my thesis ... appear and never get developed. ideas i had that didn't fit in anywhere, or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... join the livestream and ask. Otherwise just leave a note or a question in ... I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  team pitching in to help solder or grab extra wires from Stata — and ... wanted to spend 12 hours on 2.009 in one sitting again. [carousel image1 ... jumbled, causing the motors to zig-zag, or jump, or simply make grinding

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  time, in between doing homework and writing papers and trying to stay ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  MIT students - but we all go to MIT. Being in touch with friends with ... on track to great things in the astronomy world. I think that coming to ... , and I haven't spoken to him in two years, but that adventure will always

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... to hold their class materials. Professors: Three women in the video ... MIT Admissions team back in 1992 to serve as an informational

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  crowded café or bar. Walking until I get lost and finding myself in the ... I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... firehose. In reference to this came the adjective hosed, meaning bogged down ... might also be funny to ask Robo-CJ, or GPT-2 fine-tuned on my writing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10

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

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... your life. You always had so many dreams. I’ve said it in one way or ... ’s exhausting work though, isn’t it?  There’s no point in complaining about it to

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021