Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  nothing to do with you. I’m making this point because getting rejected from ... most important point. While we’re going with a Revolutionary theme, I’m

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  landmarks, if I want to. I have no idea where I’m standing right now, but everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met ... years. I'm sitting at home in the same room I found out that I was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  - particularly since, with the AMCAS (med school app) coming out this Tuesday, I'm ... during CPW, this is how I'm imagining you: Cuteeee ♥ Haha - peace out

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... getting it on. So fast forward a bit: I'm there again at the end of August

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  other athletics at MIT; I'll do my best to find answers. P.S. I'm not really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it

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

  Mind and hand

  

  was AP Computer Science. Two and a half years later, I'm still a scientist, but I'm also something of an engineer, and I've learned to be one

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  class. Seriously, I'm talking to you, overzealous frosh."]18 ... , but I'm planning on coming back to the class next fall to try again. L ... students fear failure to some capacity. I'm scared of trying new things

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  much about the student groups I help run that I sometimes forget why I'm ... dancing, teaching, and puzzles fun, which is why I'm part of all these ... impression that I'm against innovation. There's lots of cases when founding

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  conversation? "Hi, I'm Alan, and I'm attracted to people of all genders, and that's the reason I'm talking to you today!" It just didn't seem right. I mean ... becomes, "have I struck the right balance for myself?" To be honest, I'm

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  teaching when I'm teaching something I know a lot about. My past experiences ... subject recently myself, and I'm kind of desperately hoping the student ... I see them every day. I'm glad that I moved to EC, learned how to use

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  if you push past your reservations. But I'm so curious about video ... shoots as a production assistant.   The amazing and derpy Season 3 team. (I'm ... writing; I'm just happy with how it sounds.] On the morning after filming

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  ’re not spread too thin. 6. MEng Year: Research is What I’m Doing When I Don’t Know What I’m Doing Become okay with not having all the answers ... gave me a bookmark with a quote by Wernher von Braun: Research is What I’m

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ..." YOU: "Uh, aren't you a premed too?" HIM: "Yeah, but I'm not one of those premeds." I'll admit upfront that I'm definitely guilty of both II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to ... of organizing my thoughts about the big issues that I'm worried about, which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  Pros: Separation between school and the rest of my life. Even though I'm ... the bubble". I can balance my life far better when I'm not constantly ... note="and i do some of those other things at mit"]do work when I'm home

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  scholar. I'm going to put [annotation note='CMS is Comparative Media Studies ... later published as the Galactic Puzzle Hunt. I'm [annotation note="I love ... is today, a work of art. But I'm not sure I'd call the 1981, single

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  further back until I had to deal with them. Look, see, I’m writing the blog ... is ending too soon. I want to be sad because I’m being left alone ... . I’m missing memories, I’m missing emotions. But I’m not missing people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Jessie L. '07 I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog by ... Ceri R. '16 Memories by Latasha Boyd 6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a ... student by Alex M. '21 throughlines by Paolo A. '21 I’m Still Here (for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  for its nerdy interests – and our president is no different. “I’m ... needlepoint portraits of people’s dogs!  She then goes on to say, “But I’m not really mechanically adept. I’m really wanting to learn those skills!”  And

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024