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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... my cells. It's nice to not be juggling classes and lab and everything ... prepared (and well-funded I might add) to have to time of my life seeing how

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... as they wanted, so some bloggers chose not to take some of the tests ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were

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

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all projects turn out, and not all grants get accepted. In order to succeed you ... . Regardless of whether or not you go to MIT, you have a long, uphill battle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  to tell about the room, but he did not remember who lived before him ... learned that what is pictured below is not what Jakob referred to as the ... '. [T]hat was one of their defaults." A poster from The Oatmeal, "How to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  students to write from the heart and to not have their essays edited by any ... ." That's all we're really looking for. To clarify, I'm not ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  I finally applied to MIT, I told myself not to expect too much since I ... meeting, we were laughing about the confession, and a Blogger Who Must Not Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the 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 ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not ... the Charles for the 4th of July, and argued endlessly about how to prove

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old ... season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to October. Overnight, the winds would abruptly switch from amihan to habagat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  they can't finish what they signed up to do. It's not that that person is ... meet deadlines for thesis, projects, and psets. It’s hard not to feel ... 'm super happy with how the project went, and it's satisfying to see this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how difficult the curriculum at MIT really is (not to mention how much I need to ... -cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  ? There surely has to be some foil to show how deeply enamored we are with ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  a whole hour before i set my alarm, and could not go back to sleep. it ... . it was three years ago that i learned how to cry without sobbing. you ... limit, but not reaching it, not getting past it. now, it truly does feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  real responsibility was memorizing and delivering lines. Not to mention ... , how I ended up talking to Elizabeth about helping out with some other ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  see people not only enjoy the dish, but also learn how to make it ... have prompted me to learn how to make this dish in incrementally more ... how to make it. As I did, they jotted down notes and prodded with

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  so it’s not like you have to come early just to do recruitment ... a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  is not required to reply to the offer of admission until May 1, the ... Action are not required (or “bound”) to attend MIT. Instructions and check ... .” Students are also asked to share jobs they’ve held, and information about how

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how ... department of science". It still strikes me how recent biology is compared to ... relativity to tell how modern the ideas in the course description are, but 8

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  professor encouraged me, I figured, why not apply to MIT? Honestly, it never ... notably in learning how to think about problems from my peers, approaching ... with some talented friends I’ve met here at MIT. It’s a testament to how

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... because you know you want to do it, not because of money or rankings or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013