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• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  terrifyingly short. Life is so long that you must fill it with things you enjoy ... Hi everyone! It’s good to be back here, on this familiar platform but very different website. I’m so not used to it that I still drafted this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  I know that it's been a long year, and now that you've had a week to ... your applications, I know how much energy and care you put into them. For ... applications, I was also reminded of how different things are today. Not so much

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  town began to reassess its very existence, and how it could continue on ... , August 2nd! Snap to it! AND NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED READING Unlike Snively's "Alaska" post of a year ago - which read, in its entirety

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  I took too many classes this semester. It was an accident. Usually ... have semester-long group projects. My French class is also an ... ’ve had several weeks where I have deadline after deadline and it’s hard to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  night of sleep for a long time. The next morning I met Sara '11 at South ... my picture taken with Matt at 9:55. Then it was off to the Stata center ... time at this one, but it's worth noting because it showed up on the

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  that it did and I made the most of it. What does this all say about life ... not to read until I had graduated. Having unearthed it from beneath the ... decided to read it and see if my personal predictions and goals for my

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will ... , and sometimes it helps me get to cool places that I didn’t really know

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  'inappropriate' intellectual interests, but I have long been grateful that my ... the process of teaching, you learn more about your stuff, and how others think about/with/through it. For more than ten years I've taught at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  resolution to cook dinner every night? Well, I did it!* *Okay, I mostly did it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center ... carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being ... , an empirial technician, and an ewok in a grueling three-hour, two-intermission-long ... academic life, it's mind-blowingly refreshing to have something in my

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Slam, a week-long, no-holds-barred celebration of poetry that's part ... one event at the Stata Center, which featured - you guessed it - a nerd ... can tell these aren't my photos because of how awesome they look. Full

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  FEET LONG. THIRTY TWO!) and the shortest ones are six inches long. It ... Handel and Haydn. But I've never studied it. I am completely aware (and a ... , well, I hear this technique and that technique, so it must be Mozart." I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  , but it was at the time because I’d long considered myself a person who ... Important: Operation Calculus. The Plan: A. How It Went: B.) There were more ... scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a ... ’s what I really want to talk about (although you’d never guess from how it ... …ufacture mischief? In which I mansplain how my friends manipulate each other

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the ... he (very patiently) coached me through a game. It took an hour - I ... I think my suckiness at Smash is interesting because it’s probably not

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  how well it is written, or how flowery the language is. The essays are ... -in-the-wall that a lot of people miss, but it has some great veggie options. I ... country. So, how would you judge/compare/evaluate applicants who had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  socially. My mom, knowing how difficult school was for me, started promising ... , when the doors opened. It was one of the first concerts I ever camped out ... myself for the chaos that would be the pit. I loved every second of it. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... that every practice felt like it was just hanging out, rather than a ... emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my ... coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small ... waiting to take this class since freshman fall, and it's honestly one of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , it does only offer French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese - but ... day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best ... the night before your exam [it's not high school anymore ;)]. MIT is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007