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• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  notoriety for writing #BlackLivesMatter 100 times on his Stanford application ... epitome of her deceit lies in her campaign for a seat on the Cambridge City Council as a freshman at Harvard. Nadya spent less than a year living in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday ... engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to ... .  On the surface, they have done everything “right,” but the “how” and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  smell of the boxes I lived out of for weeks and the Junior Mint factory on ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... 'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  welcoming "How are you doing today sir?" to his deeper and brotherly "wassgood ... who look like you. Those on my side of the counter may mistake this ... carefully choose those stories that had shaped me and immortalize them on my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  have made here on the blogs, such as David's Putting Diversity Into ... and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere. When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various

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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just ... commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  - Boston Pops performs live at the Hatch Shell in Boston on July 4th each year, and then there's fireworks immediately following on the river - did ... so I can see what the heck was on it - I was quite surprised actually

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  to be notified about every single event on campus"]deleted it ... for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program ... gallery and claim an artwork. it's a bit competitive -- art goes on a first

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  the hall but is secondary information to saying that you live on, say ... dorm: it turns out that quite a few of my fellow bloggers do live/have lived here, so I'll let them handle that. Instead, as the current East

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... have received on Sunday. We all say that it will get better, that you ... “no”, wishing that something had gone differently, sad that you’re on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more ... . However, I am now on the varsity fencing team, and that’s arguably cooler

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  and keep walking. STUDENT LIFE Listen to firehose chats on WMBR. They ... -253-1212 and ask for the Dean on Call. Someone will talk to you and help you ... every state. Make friends with people outside of your living group. Sure

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  from Google Earth to help with comparing to how it looks today ... video (or 1.25 hours if you watch it all on 2x speed). I'd say it's a worthwhile watch and can be helpful if you're missing MIT like I am. Some

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

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... to help incredible people applying to college, but they also gave me ... favorite directors, and met the people who are still my closest friends today

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  ourselves these questions, trying to figure out how to live. We go on living ... immigrants. “Ten years ago, they beat MIT,” reads a headline on AZ Central.com. “Today, it’s complicated.” The film screening was followed by a discussion

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  fun walking around on giant blocks of foam. [carousel image1 ... second, so it was not continued, but it lived on every time we crowded in ... Tony, who was on the MechE sub-team, not Software, came to help as well

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on ... . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and ... yourself these questions as well!) How are you doing today?   Bryan

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . '14 Ten Years (On Dreams) by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16 Mystery Hunt ... now) by Sabrina M. '21 Living Meaningfully by Nisha D. '21 ... world that's constructed to help you become yourself for four(ish) years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025