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  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to drive down for the eclipse so ... experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  out pretty well for you, didn't it, Washington? The statue in the ... ’t control what traits an admissions committee is looking for, or what mood a reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  'm headed to UC Berkeley for grad school. Of course, the data also predicts ... week! And training for a marathon! What was I, Superdude? Seriously, the ... . And the point is that I'm going to miss this, because problem set

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... hearing that MIT is what it is because of the people who go here, but it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of ... cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is ... toons (a guest performance for the olin college powerchords): toons sang

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Leaving Massachusetts is the hardest state to draw.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 24, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my host teaches Algebra I, Algebra II, and Pre-Calculus. The high school is ... before-school, lunch, and after-school time is the kids’ time to ask me for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... ="107410" /] Storytime: So one of the TAs for 18.02A has a crazy response time. Like you ... something for one of the questions. So we decided to put his reply speed to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  over two months. It is unfortunately not helpful because for the first ... meeting is for DormCon, aka the Dormitory Council. We're the outgoing ... trees are all flowering just like they were, and the weather is sunny but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  post. This time, I have a story. The story is not about me (well, not ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling ... is held there on Sundays. The surrounding villages have none of these

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself for the agonizing six weeks following October 31. And then, I got this ... tourist traps through the boroughs, but for some reason this was the night

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  switched.” *(Here's the video, reference at 2:06, and here is the poster for ... for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor ... ’t necessarily think that just by seeing “INFP” or “Virgo”. So maybe the best way

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... with the student and prepared to leave for 806, I could hear her saying

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... that this is, indeed, the 2011 EA poster!) There were extensive Power ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  the epic e-mail failure of po14 last spring. Look for Evan's blog about ... work set the basis for several new developments i.e. using yeast to ... perfect. But it at least allows some flexibility, which is good for those

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  - what is an Athena box? lolol. 98. Try out for the MIT Blackjack Team ... of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at ... , and I'm extremely envious of the level of her self-discipline. As for my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... Everything is different now by Mimi S. '22 Thoughts from the Dungeon by ... MIT Admissions blogs are a special corner of the internet because, for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... ="87002" /] again, first pic credit goes to Joonho Pros the cafeteria is right ... positive but for me is distracting food is so overpriced Fourth Floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014