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• Blog / Advice

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

  

  during my interviews, but had friends who were. But honestly, the thing ... it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than ... . This is purely from my POV as a recent grad school applicant. (I left

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

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  also mercilessly steal blog formatting and style ideas from my friend ... MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  . Finally, I'd like to credit my friend Lucas Ospina '26 on the card as he ... 's kind of a coincidence; if you've read my course catalog history you ... correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  about puzzlehunts the same but removed all my friends, then I wouldn ... 🎮 🐝." My team, ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈, has its own share of ... observation could probably be made about a lot of things? Maybe my point is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  of my own close friends and an actual resident of Simmons dormitory ... Shop   The MIT Wind Tunnel was my first excursion into the Aero ... identity.   Virginia (on the right) and I, being friends

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , friendly energy to the space)'][/annotation], to tell you more about it. Hello! My name is Nandini Choudhury (she/hers), and I am the Assistant

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  recruit, and having my senior friends read it over and tell me what to ... time acquiring employment. So this blog post is about my personal ... internships in April, before my internship for 2019 had even started. [caption

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  've always found that my closest friends are cancers and that our personalities ... my own meta-survey asking people to take surveys, is scientific either ... know it’s stupid”, which sums up my own opinion pretty well too. There

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

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything ... here. My dad follows the blogs very closely as well and the two of us ... had my way, College Confidential would be wiped off the face of the

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  of the gray "lunchboxes" my friends in 6.08 received this past semester ... meeting her husband, fellow MIT alumni John Hammond. To my surprise, I saw ... . This resonated with me – from when I first arrived on campus for my FPOP

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed ... ran, and it was amazing. It was the highlight of my IAP this year, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  "leaning in" comes from a piece of writing by my good friend Avery N. ‘22 ... half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could ... of organizing my thoughts about the big issues that I'm worried about

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

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

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact ... friends of yours have started companies?” she asks me. Immediately, half a ... President Kornbluth to answer. She loves her friends and family, exploring

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  . If the Z is closed, I’ll either ask one of my BC friends to tap me into ... preferences, my top choice is almost always the Z. I really like having a slew ... ’s so easy to just sit on my phone or get distracted; being around others

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... knew him as the guy who spilled apple cider on my math homework ... imagine that they must have had my info from when I was a finalist for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what ... since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  TypeScript is now my favorite programming language. What happened? The ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own ... my first year, I took a [annotation note="MIT's Undergraduate Research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  surprised I ever found him given the low number of course 14s. I gave him my ... "]he didn’t believe me[/annotation] and then found my number in his contacts ... this is all (mostly) relevant.  PA: Outside of my room in Next House, I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  students of color at MIT. I was with one of my friends, Alberto Hernandez ‘17 ... paraphrased/inspired by one of my favorite Radiolab episodes, Colors, in which a ... would be too spicy for the “guest”, me, of my own father or mother

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  it fit right in the bottom of my suitcase, and has handles, so I don ... to my iPod, AM/FM radio, and speakers (if your alarm clock can't be ... connected to my computer. SPEAKING OF WHICH! 8. Computer! I actually know

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007