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  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  caveats: There’s more to life than grad school. And college. And school ... other way around for life sciences PhD programs). I applied to mostly bio ... life. Some people go to grad school just because they can, or because it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... important, some greater, grand life lesson that I hope to carry with me into ... life. freshman spring: i am not the person that i was I've mentioned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  and life stories, they reassured me that the choice to stop had been a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I ... again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new ... surprised by the fractal nature of life -- there’s the world in all its

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week, disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved – it couldn’t just have been you who did…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  particularly dark and volatile period of my life, I am grateful that it shaped me ... bystander effect is real. Like, in real life and not just in psychology ... give yourself a better life, what is the point if you’re not healthy and

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

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

  

  Class Supper titled “The Pin” with the tagline “I do not set my life at a ... became a noted professional genealogist. Later in life, Holman went into ... Hartford District Committee for MIT alumni. Holman’s life is the dream for a

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

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  color... And what if one day, a bright, red apple falls into your life ... , economic development. If race has never affected your life so intimately, it ... , because it has never fallen into your life--or it appears so rarely, you may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe.) After finals, my brother…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  name onto the survivor board (“better survival rate than life”****). The ... have it). **** Quite possibly the most terrifying moment of my life (I ... my real on-campus MIT social life on the east side, East Campus is full

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  the cookies. I confided in her that for the first time in my life, I ... Drago’s conversations with me—plus their wonderful presence in my life ... as opposed to something that I can use to reach a certain goal in life

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  where I thought my life would go, I wasn't even close. I would've guessed ... , during a stressful time in your professional or personal life. Other times ... elements back into my life. To the joys and the learning from the past 10

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like to help out…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  There is much hullabaloo around campus here lately as everyone is buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book superhero fan, and I hadn't…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  The reading continues, almost non-stop here… for another perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with this question:   Would a non-techie passion (like poetry,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  , their importance in my life, their importance in others' lives in ways I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  responsibilities in your MIT student life. Since I was posting less regularly, I felt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with admissions director McGreggor Crowley) and answered questions from international students. Near the end, someone asked: “Can…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011