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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . They want to take a photo in The Alchemist. There’s an endless line of parents and tourists waiting to take photos in The Alchemist. A convoy of ... coming out. They flutter to the floor in a heap. The Milk arrives on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  's writing, she uses a lot of adjectives . . . etc etc) and got more onto the ... pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... myself to being gay, though, until my senior year. I was in a relationship ... aesthetic for a long time, and I attached my identity to my suffering. I used

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math ... maybe a dog ironically named Kitty. 6. If I wanted to, I was in a good ... out to fulfill what I could. I found a UROP in the Space Systems Lab and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  insurance. Then, turn in said worksheet to GECD.  Send in a copy of ... used to at MIT. There wasn't going to be much in terms of ... left: embrace your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to step away from all

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  of them. ** 1. First time using a washing machine. My first time in ... how to use a washer and a dryer, and some tiny part of me was doubtful ... navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social ... undergraduates, even those who have never lived in Burton-Conner, have a wealth of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  —but in the 1920s, credit was given to the Dorm Goblin, who acted as a ... culture had developed into a plan to concentrate the best upcoming minds in ... creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  started a draft back in September about my anxiety problems. I was trying to ... around on-campus before rushing back to my dorm in the midst of a panic ... all. And I was fortunate enough to find a therapist who worked out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... our community, as a whole, wishes to achieve. I think in many ways, we ... ’d have to describe it in a more roundabout way, or simply not at all. The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  there was a girl who went to my high school and lived in my neighborhood ... came in to argue a similar thing and they allowed it. The student didn ... supportive parents. I live in a suburban house where I don’t have to worry

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time ... transferring to MIT, I pursued a sophomore year in Mechanical Engineering at ... would fit in well at MIT and wanted to challenge myself a bit more. A

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  been the best skill I learned in college. To acquire it, join a student ... find your favorite UROP too, but it is also ok to defer to a convenient ... class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it.” → I had to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  breakout board (which you don’t have) in order to use the chip with a ... the rocks are starting to melt. A group of identical Sloan students in ... . You scramble to find a pencil. You can no longer remember the answer

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  worries, like finding a place to live in the fall. The fact that our REX ... activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... ,[annotation note="in particular, I had missed mine to play in a pit orchestra

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  the top half of the Red Line. A map might be useful to follow along. CJ ... Maureen in Rent, ‘you dressed up as a groundhog to protest the ... ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  in March, to just take a moment and think. I remember high school ... , friends, and all the rest to ever find a moment for yourself. But you need ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... a booth on one of these tables and advertise to passersby in between ... , was moving day, in which a bunch of stuff was moved from the office to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020