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  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... .) But anyways, back to the original point of this story. It was on this ... out of angst or in hopes of pity; I tell it to share my personal

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student, which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of ... why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... couple of e-mails on my behalf to people he knew in his department, which ... womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ; his was one of those characters whose memory is always the last to die ... letters to the Class Secretary, some of which have been published” (and I ... ’ or other clubs, like the Levis (Canada) Snow-shoe Club (of which he was

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

  50 Reflections

  

  only a few months old and restricted to a handful of colleges, which ... the only institution in the country willing to take on this level of ... someone over there right away. Which terminal is she..." Me: "DON'T TRY TO

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that ... . Everything was going to be different, for better or worse. I needed to, in many ... is closed on this day of rest, 24 hours truly set aside for rest and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I ... , for better or worse, I did not change into the sellout Desai warned of ... , a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . There is a vague community of MIT-adjacent people interacting on Twitter ... might also be funny to ask Robo-CJ, or GPT-2 fine-tuned on my writing ... getting an education from the University of Chicago, which is not a school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in general and ... the literature on “Ku80 related NHEJ-repair in CHO cells,” which is ... exploring all of DNA repair, or at least homologous repair which you can

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  strip every couple of posts, if I think of a joke or something. ... video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  people who embarked on yearlong missions to South America or Africa. The ... to U.S. News & World Report, which makes a habit of knowing these ... is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  fail to recognize or appreciate, is that amongst a host of factors ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  winters. Celsius present within; convert personally, whoops. Cambridge ... ="74053" /] Parkas, windbreakers, cloaks, pullovers; which clothes protect well? Costly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... .) Adam is what we like to call an airplane nerd. He likes to design them ... Aero/Astro department that he's one of the best undergrads to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  lot of people, is more than just a word, or to explain historically why ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of ... "emergencies," or sudden environmental changes to which our critters must adapt ... confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  cultured to the term “Ivy League” or anything of that sort. I knew nothing ... -JAMB). Due to great restriction on the number of Nigerian universities I could ... really had one Nigerian university I could apply to, which of course

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite ... ball, on the other hand, is a ball only held at the end of the academic ... traveling to all these places though, is the company of all my wonderful

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

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... when the grade in question is as low or lower than mine. Listen to me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  . Entertainment. The closest major city to my town is St. Louis, which is two hours ... , this deal is too good to pass up. Research. I mentioned one of the ... of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024