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• Blog / Extracurriculars

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  . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... is planning to major in course 6 or course 18, in part to find out what ... , which is fine, because there are many ways to skin a rabbit (and besides

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  week. Thankfully my tests are spread out, allowing me to focus on one subject at a time. After taking tests, I normally go back to my room to ... Finally, my first blog post! It has been such a hectic week. It

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  looking for something to do, you virtually guaranteed to find something ... to be a waiter. :) Although most of the guys wore dress shirts and ... any photos of the food, so you'll just have to take my word that (a) it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  Professor Virk. He would wear a North Face jacket to class every day for 10.301: Fluid Mechanics. Inevitably, he would find it a little stuffy in the room ... at MIT are 12 units (corresponds roughly to a 4 unit class at other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  credible answers to a few questions that the painfully shallow news coverage ... that doesn't have to worry about cultivating diverse perspectives in a ... students who are being shut out, whether it's a smart American kid who has to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  until midnight running experiments. Maybe it's just a testament to campus ... equipment." adjective -- pertaining to one's UROP "My UROP professor gave me a ... wage. Nice!" verb -- to work in a UROP "I'm UROPping until 5 today, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  about it, find a way to drop the hint in an essay: "When I visited XXXXXX ... CollegeBoard send them to us, but for a definitive answer you should call ... file. There is no need to give us a heads

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  -Based Organizations (CBOs): visits to CBOs, which may work with students from a region ... traveled to Southern California. I spent a week driving all over the region ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  'm getting at is that you will likely be able to find a variety of student ... through to a handful of people, but you seemed really cool! Thanks for your ... together in a concentrated burst of effort to do everything that lies at the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a ... spent living with a view of the muddy Charles river, it's nice to be ... roll on, which also happens to be a catenary. I took 18.022 myself, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  purposes). That...gulp...rejection (yes, it was a very difficult word to say ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... have had a great experience at any of the three I applied to. Your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted ... videos gave me secondhand embarrassment in a matter of seconds; I had to go back to those at a later time with more of an open mind. After delving

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  research, from an organized beginning to a furious blur at the end. Step 1 ... Random to fall housing in McCormick (a sweat-driven Tuesday morning haul ... Japan to relax for a few days before returning to campus. I briefly looked

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  finding the station in the nick of time. I was supposed to be featured on a ... journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a ... words to give shape to this looming story, it persisted like a large

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life by Jenny X. '13 Leaving a Mark by Kate ... doing so. The whole idea behind the blogs is to open a window into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... ? Can a civilization be healed? Can damage to hateful souls--the rot that ... straws, trying to understand, trying to find what to do, I am with you

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided ... the jump, ask yourself: "Why does this thing I'm writing have to be a ... have to find their strength, and when they do find it, it comes forth

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

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  possible. On my way home from Europe, I had to use a Swedish girl's scale ... I managed to need so much luggage for a 3-month trip to Germany ... --I figure that posting a half-finished blog entry will better motivate me to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so ... ’s hard anywhere to achieve your dreams. It’s going to be a tough ... archives to the posts from mid-December. There's a post every year for EA

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver ... wanted a top-notch academic school. I went to an [annotation note="An ID ... MIT coach a lot, which made my connection to MIT feel stronger. I kept

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025