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  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  how cool it was because it’s a class that I and many other people take ... anyone else to. Sometimes it is helpful to stop and think, “How would I ... year, but I am still learning how to get better at it—figuring out what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  finish with flying colors. Sound familiar? It does to me, because that ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  . Experiment with your writing style. Approach it differently from how you would ... sounds like. Does it sound like you, or does it sound like someone that ... your essay though. If it's really hard determining how much fluff you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  unexpectedly long time to wear off, maybe because it coincided with other starts ... , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having ... . The start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  easier to you than it does to for others at MIT. A lot of you may have come ... video format watch the video down below. this video does have subtitles ... overly aggressive firehose and it's just too much information all at once

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  it. So, that's all, folks: stay tuned for my next post, on How to Sue ... 'm sorry it took me so long to get a first post out; I was waiting until ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  it does. For some people, this is old hat. For me, it's really ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I feel that it's still a slogan that sounds cute, but it's also meaningful

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I realized that I had not, in fact, figured it all out; in some ways I felt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  Soccer season is officially over. Holy smokes does time fly. It feels ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I ... my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -wracking, sweat-inducing mess. We the admissions bloggers have somehow done it, and we've told you all about it. So what's the deal? This art piece ... describing their majors. As they munched on cookies, they told us about how

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  and decided to see how long Milk could last. Either way, Milk was let ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  moments and how you overcame your downfalls. We talk about what it must be ... Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  -to-earth people that walk its halls. As mentioned earlier, we primarily learned how ... . Honestly, it was not great. Spending so long on a pset/lab is just mentally ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... about and working on my essay. And reworking it. Over and over again. The

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to ... . But then, you never know how the blogger platform will behave—it’s been ... post hidden even longer, until some undefined “special occasion,” but it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... med school and make negative $30,000 a year). While it doesn't seem like that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  them. They asked how I was, how'd it go, congrats, you survived! but I ... career. But it doesn’t feel like anything worth celebrating about. I spent ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb ... Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009