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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like ... -wizard tournament that is MIT. You all have worked so hard up to this point, finding ... nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  complete the race and ethnicity section of the MIT admission application ... little of the confusion is actually about racial identity and identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... that if you’re bad at something at MIT, there will always be somewhere

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

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  some trolleys here and there. MIT is pretty centrally located for a lot ... between your street and Broadway. You know the way to MIT is left, but you ... finally reach Massachusetts Avenue. MIT is just to your left, so you turn

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Friday(!), giving an address on clean energy. As prestigious as MIT is, and ... visit the weekend before. MIT went into scramble mode, which is always fun ... MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... . MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high ... within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... speaking Shanghainese, and now I remember that moment in English, which is

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

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  helps me and what doesn’t. MIT is a mentally taxing place, but I’m finally ... ’ve been thinking a lot about how I’ve changed during my time at MIT, and I ... have learned this past year: 1. What machine learning is And what it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  note="It's one of those fox, chicken, bag of corn problems. Dog 1 is old ... barking if Dog 1 or 2 starts barking. Dog 4 is a puppy that cannot be left ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  : Daniel S., Akshaj K., Vivek B., and Guang C. I'm guessing the name is inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On ... MIT have cool names: Kerberos, Athena, and now Interstellar! Though

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  is reasonably safe to do so, meaning any day during which the rain hasn ... little exercise. It's a timesaver, too, since my morning workout is wrapped up within my morning commute. Biking is also usually faster than any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  week from 2021 adMITs, and I got into MIT three years and one week ago ... metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is ... , and then Tulane waitlisted her, and then MIT accepted her, but she was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  fit for MIT, and I think the program she started is cool. I like her ... though my heart is being pulled in too many directions at once. My Pi Day ... recommendation <3 She is very awesome! :) He's just an objectively wonderful

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Ben Bell Sophomore MIT-Israel Program Internship: Ben Gurion ... say about the summer is, “swiftly fly the years”. Be’er Sheva is a ... that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... culmination of an MIT career. They were given to only the perfect students, with

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this ... from fellow alums who have felt similar things. It's a reminder that MIT truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full, sometimes I think I won’t ever eat again for three days (which is obviously

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... ,[/annotation] but it was telling us two key things: 1. we can get free art from mit for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024