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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  ’t get stuck in the bubble, please. I learned the hard way that MIT is a ... , though I prefer to celebrate on Fridays, not Wednesdays. It’s why MIT is so ... some point is kind of inescapable. And perfectly ok. MIT actually

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  that MIT is bad at the humanities, but I wanted a fresh start. I didn ... thoughts Introduction I entered MIT as a potential bioengineering major with ... me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14 How to receive your MIT admissions decision.

  

  online is as easy as pi. When decisions are released, simply visit ... online, please visit decisions.mit.edu and enter your username and password ... MIT Admissions plans to make Regular Action decisions available

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  many amazing new people is exciting. I spend a lot of time online during ... teaching abroad"]IAP,[/annotation]when an email is sent to our dorm mailing ... ="Campus Preview Weekend, during which we welcome prefrosh to MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  helped, but is not necessary) MIT was the most helpful in figuring out ... again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important ... . In some ways, it did the opposite. MIT is a place where things move

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

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  [/annotation] paints the city skyline from MIT and is ever present when you face the ... crosses the river. The museum (which MIT students get free admission to!) is ... steps away from MIT. This is explained by the fact that it’s actually

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  blog is about, more abstractly, the decisions I made this year. I feel ... -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  [annotation note='CourseRoad is a tool MIT students use to plan their classes ... they adapted to MIT. The question we now return to is that of ... 've left my copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics [annotation note="this is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  there. Yet MIT felt like home too. Boston is comforting and familiar; and ... about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  MIT-style, putting down more classes than you will take because you have ... deposit.  Figure out how to do an international wire online, but ... person and realise there is a $40 or something fee, but what else are you

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  . Today’s is with a grad student at MIT: we talk about his journey into ... , this post is not meant to convince you to go to MIT. I can’t tell you ... half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  designated in your MyMIT account) is 2008. You applied in Regular Action, or ... check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a MyMIT ... receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. Please

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  wrote in the 1984 Report, "the character of MIT’s student body is dictated ... chance they will come here this fall, since MIT really is the best school ... -years and FSILGs, residential life is such an important part of the MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  for free online. Proofs is divided into five sections, each one ... 18.304 (discrete math) is one of two communication intensive (CI ... my math major. (The second one, which I’m taking this semester, is 18

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how ... ’ve probably seen the show and know how it is. I wish I could call this a ... cook-off didn’t [annotation note="which is probably for the best, at

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  participants, including ~15k in the United States last year. Bebras USA is led ... . One thing I like about Bebras USA is that it has really has taken root ... fascinating challenges.   The Bebras Challenge is a fun, online event that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2 ... Intercollegiate Athletics site has a long list of achievements. Meghan is a ... she was 4 (!) and is one of two goalies on MIT's team. Her profile on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  Can you believe we have a GAME LAB? The MIT Game Lab brings together ... is to explore, educate, and engage the public by creating groundbreaking games, interactive online courses, and new applications to real
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... this Guardian article about inventor culture at MIT, here is the Boston ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... was IMing my bff Sameer when he mentioned MIT. Eighth grade Anna: Is ... the MIT admissions site, and I began reading the blogs. Mollie made a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012