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  Mind and hand

  

  't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... care about the theory behind anything; they want to know how things work ... or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power

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

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  with how the whole thing went. She encourages me to eat more, because ... to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... only way to describe us is “formerly returned students.” This year, there

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  about how to make my participation fun. Then I thought, well, why shouldn ... without root access. This involved things like, figuring out how to download ... sense of, I feel so powerful learning how to do more things. It feels like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  who knows how many companies I've applied to that haven't even taken the ... waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail ... She worked so hard and got into all the state schools she applied to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Rico to see how “knowledge, expertise, practices, and corruption ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  . it was three years ago that i learned how to cry without sobbing. you ... happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... ata gustong manalo Wala na ’to Pareho lang tayong malabo i’ve been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• 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 ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were ... my own meta-survey asking people to take surveys, is scientific either

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  have learned this semester is that they are vital to understanding how ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an ... arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  .” Students are also asked to share jobs they’ve held, and information about how ... love how prompt 16 directs the student to engage in meaningful self ... to share how their goals intersect with MIT in the longer-term, past

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to perform--he is simply here to be himself. The musicians behind him slow jam

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id ... ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• 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 / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I ... .   This is nothing but reassuring to me. When I was considering going

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020