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  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  educate people from every walk of life.” This and other statements on the ... life demonstrate those bona fides beyond a shadow of a doubt. I think ... valuable and life changing experience than if I had stayed in a program

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  I'd keep muted over the weekend. My life was on pause this weekend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  kid that's studied biology all your life, whereas some of you may not

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

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  limited given general student patterns of life.']vast majority of MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  food, what happened yesterday, how much sleep I got, how my social life

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally going to go out just before CPW,…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to my phone…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  (Credit: Drone footage by Matt Carney, taken from Henry DaCosta’s 2016 Senior Video.) Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school, Ward Melville. In my three years there,…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  prepared (and well-funded I might add) to have to time of my life seeing how

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  positions that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  great/hellish time anyways. ...figure out what to do with my life? Okay

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  a forums post cannot communicate the complexity of an applicant's life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  . This is grief. Through my life, I have been spared from the worst of ... known. To fully know oneself includes knowing one's life from the shoes of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  test in first-year algebra but would never use in real life. 8.022 is ... hate when things feel arbitrary. All my life, I’ve been told to memorize ... great, because they were APs, because they took over my life and I couldn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  spend your whole life doing what you love, but you also get to make a lot ... on for dear life and hold our breath. We look out for each other, and ... taking the test changes you profoundly and the test is actually life. —me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  .B. ‘21 I got my decision on Pi Day -- I did not have my life anywhere

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ’m into theoretical computer science, and applying algorithms to real-life ... Line. Alan: I never want to see another Green Line train in my life. CJ ... rest of his life. I mean, sure. Alan: Our next destination was the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  others, food, water, life, experiences, feelings, new ideas, something to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I’m 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and the upcoming new year,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012