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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  time to return to MIT, and I was pretty excited. I had already formed the ... amused. “Yes, um, this is the wrong way.” He helped with the bags, led me to Random, and wished me the best of luck at MIT. The world needs more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  about MIT is that this place does break you down. It doesn’t have to break ... challenge you is an experience most people who come to MIT have never had ... to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  ! Ex. 2: MIT's Stata Center is non-Gaussian. Isotropic (adj ... Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... Electrical Engineering, not a measure of height. The MIT Bubble is a pressure ... to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music* Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve ... people to come talk to us about their majors. We spoke with fifteen MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  even at a time of social distancing and fear, humanity is real:  MIT ... . If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same ... our email was coming too. MIT was going to follow suit. When the email

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’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 ... about two questions: why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT, and why I was keen to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... working. Here is our kitchen, which is probably not the kitchen you’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  student. In this image Boston is on the right and MIT is on the other side ... River, this time from MIT. Only Boston is visible, with the Harvard Bridge ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends with units is great, but what I really enjoyed, and still enjoy, is

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  each one of these admissions offices, and not one of them is MIT. On the ... Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  Fair. The fair is held every year at MIT, and Adam's award (a trip to a ... on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... .) Adam is what we like to call an airplane nerd. He likes to design them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  answer, because MIT is the community you will spend most of your time in ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... , and I told her about MIT. Unlike most people I had told, her reaction

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• 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…

  

  from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  when I was at MIT. Busy is good. ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... , which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  difficult to enjoy a higher quality of life without a diploma), and MIT is not ... and consider my own flesh and blood, is very bright but has always hated ... of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  : MIT is THE place to study STEM! And we just feel that if we do stop ... skills would be buzzing in our heads, like on a daily. MIT is so special ... through it with peers. **everyone's MIT Experience varies and there is no

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  blogger himself during his time at MIT!!! How cool is that? You all should ... . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and ... ’m soaking in being a senior at MIT and living at home.  What Is Your Favorite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021