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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... ironic that this huge, 100-plot cemetery is filled with French aristocrats

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  MIT apart from other institutions is the incredibly stimulating ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... the more unsung parts of MIT: People here are very clever. You see

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  are strong matches for the MIT education. This includes (but is not ... Bridge, College Horizons, and more to help their students learn about what MIT is ... aid ensures that everyone who is admitted to MIT can afford to attend

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  there is someone at MIT who falls into that mold, it's probably Charles ... few weeks back. This got me thinking of MIT people who just kind of ... MITERS, the main student hackerspace at MIT. Specifically, he's best known

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  office, is emphatically not to admit the "best students" to MIT, but rather ... following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  someone else's life at MIT: 6.131 Lab. 6.131 Lab, or Power Electronics is ... problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  MIT has been different. Malingap is, when my first night at MIT, an ... welcomed. Malingap is feeling welcomed; because when MIT says “you are ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  . Because in the end, I truly believe that MIT is what it is today because of ... the truth, in a Zeno's Paradox sort of way. Part of the MIT culture is ... journey I am. Applying to MIT is its own kind of journey. And I think the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic. My sleep schedule, I feel, is about 2 hours later than normal working ... is simply a difference in preparation. You learn this by being at MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  he is remembered also by his final communication with MIT. The letter ... Hartford District Committee for MIT alumni. Holman’s life is the dream for a ... employability of Electrical Engineers. And it is best summed up by his former MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... . Fit is something with a million different meanings, highly subjective

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  hearing that MIT is what it is because of the people who go here, but it's true: MIT is what it is because the people here create their own ... think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  than I have encountered at MIT. Basically what I want to say is that every MIT student should study abroad because it is an enriching ... am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a ... much because I have seen everything there is to MIT (by far impossible ... : Firstly, MIT will train you how to think. The Latin motto of this school is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  - "College is a business. MIT admissions do not determine your success in life ... is smarter than me and he got rejected from MIT for undergrad and just ... 's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... students' MIT acceptance moments, prompted by a pre-Pi Day email thread ... , “OH RIGHT MIT LET ME JUST SAVE MY GAME AAAAAA” and then came the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... something for myself. I'm still not sure this is "good." But it's beginning ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  . Ayomide is a junior at MIT (Class of 2018) who studies Chemical Engineering ... ; Classroom 10-250   10-250 is a classic MIT lecture hall, in the sense ... Williams is a fictional MIT black woman, she’s played by a real MIT black

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011