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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  exploring my goals and passions here on campus. I learned a lot about myself ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs ... ="107440" image2="107439" /] Can read more about Halloween on campus in Janet

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... share with some of our prospective students what it feels like on the ... withholding the application process from my friends. On the top floor of Senior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  containers on my counter. On the left was slow-cooked chicken thighs; on the ... before about how I structure my reading into a block schedule, with intense ... work: a friend of mine has been sick, and I've been helping make a lot of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  want. This IAP, I worked on my senior thesis, explored Boston, took a ... . Additionally, no matter where you live or what your major is, MIT students can ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... ’s kind of like plodding uphill knee-deep in mud on a hot humid day. Who ... of you, I know, that is not good news. But hopefully most of you

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  2000 The place: Stata Center, 32-141. The time: a dusky 9:00 AM on the ... launches from backyards or by Carl Sagan reruns on PBS, these are people that ... they could read. These are people that can identify airplanes on sight

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  classroom or the television or the world I lived in, I didn’t feel American. I ... ’t Denver’s problem, even though the area we lived in wasn’t very diverse, but ... subway. No matter where in the world we went, on the subway, people would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... engineer. If you ask Matt McGann, he can dig up the essay on my MIT ... Berkeley (where up to 25% of the graduating class can be premed). It helps

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  to help nudge me along on adventures and help find warm food for my ... NOW I AM FACING THE GUILT HEAD ON. TAKE THAT, GUILT.) However, I'm a ... through their lovely writing. Anastassia's post, in particular, helped give

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  me, I won't review the past year on here, but I made a Substack post about it. Someone asked me today what my 2023 resolutions were, and I ... Sadly, I did not come up with the title pun myself, I saw it on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  't belabor the point, as my position on the matter is well established. Suffice it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance travelled as we do on the heights achieved. I think our admission decisions

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  people existed in my head. I began to type, and they began to live on dark ... Sylvester—the hilarious, no-nonsense coach on Glee. She was mere feet away ... Life steps on the brakes, and the car screeches and you just have to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on ... selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is

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

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling ... length segments, on the XY plane, and then use a Box component to extrude ... of a Spice Theorem I've been following, with a little help from, in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  tactical vest and be very nice to everyone on campus). But what really sets ... guy getting his bagel from LaVerdes could be a MacArthur fellow, whose

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  self-esteem drops to unprecedented lows. I applied early action, and on ... . You’ve found something you love. You’ve nerded out on it. You want to ... , skill, and perseverance. It depends more on you than on the school you go

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds ... helps students make professional-level video projects. Cowboy, holding ... Mirchi, MIT’s South Asian fusion dance team, and lives in Maseeh. It was in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and ... initially thought about joining the Media Lab to help people live with Autism ... engineers are saving lives on the daily or are otherwise doing amazing things

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015