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• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead ... learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... for the ‘Gram? Yes, he would.” Then I muster up the energy to go to see

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is ... planning. The Taekwondo team uses them for banquet/Secret Santa planning

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END ... 'd known that the deadline for certain summer internships, and programs like MISTI, is BEFORE THE END OF FALL SEMESTER. Before the end of fall semester

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the ... 've held for so long, than to finally break the inertia and deal with the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , is that for those of you who think being deferred is a kick in the face ... than it would have been otherwise. This is the way I would ... I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the ... barbeque and prizes for billiards and is mixing ice cream for the LN2 events ... Your Course We all love our majors. But whose major is truly the best

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  gay heart the gay heart is a device for confucious to tell haikus that ... the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... . In case you haven’t already heard the news, CPW, which is this weekend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  at the end. :'( As such, it is almost impossible to cram for any exam ... six for one. I think I am somewhat different from the "standard" MIT ... levels look like or go get the game! :) Your first semester is Luigi

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  management is probably the most accurate word for it. But then I started to ... a program called The New Technologists program. The program is pretty ... the front-end of our app to present at the end. The program is split

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... ="LaTeX is a cool formatting program language that's usually used for math ... reusing the same template for two years now, and just switching around some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  I figured I would suck it up and power through for the purpose of a ... . I started having thoughts to the effect of “everyone else is already ... random places, all of which I seriously considered for at least the time I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you ... ’d called home for so long. The thought remained in the back of my head until ... ="i flirted with the idea of staying for grad school for a while, but ultimately

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... , Jin Zhang, for her help correcting the Chinese language version of this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  things go. All I know is, I’ve experienced a lot of good things for the ... the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that ... . I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some

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

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn’t entirely true. For one, I get spooked easily. Whenever I entertained the idea

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... student's story about a mother with a brain tumor and the son that cares for ... MIT was the wrong choice for me. I've truly loved the coursework and the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  .) 9:53 AM: Back to pset. mCPBA is the most commonly used peroxyacid to ... fourth floor of building 3 for really excellent Indian food. Crack open the ... wants to work on the problem set. Hike over to Next House (ex-home that is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  leave the Boston area for graduate school. I think that those two questions have the same answer. When I arrived as a freshman, I signed up for ... contrast, did a UROP in the same solid state physics lab for nearly his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014