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  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... and January. My desk is actually less than a foot from my bed. I sit on ... caught the Hamilton references in the blog title, this is actually my most

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... school or where you’re from geographically or what your gender is. You can’t control what traits an admissions committee is looking for, or what mood a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he ... that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... is never in short supply. My group catered lunches to our group

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can ... still remains. Getting rejected from a top school, particularly MIT, isn ... ’t care whether you got into MIT or not. I loved Eric’s post last year: don

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do ... department tells me all the time that physics is hard for him, so he routinely ... textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... . Finally, we ended up with a beautiful prototype! (Don't forget- Beauty is in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  know what it looks like. I know what its color is. I know its shape. I can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... be an intense, visceral feeling, because it can be, and that is how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  discovered that satellites are extremely cool, aerospace research is fun and ... good about this career path; control theory is a field I find interesting ... fascinating, and space exploration is a mission that I believe is meaningful and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?” “Well, this is just ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I ... that time, I was preparing to return to MIT, wrapping up my work at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a ... being an over-achiever, and MIT becomes the first place you can’t get ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn ... 've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio ... alum involvement. Students, faculty, and other members of the MIT ... well over twenty years. The station's listener base is pretty large

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  scientists is to pump out papers. Conferences can only accept so many papers ... to continue hurtling through MIT with the dubiously healthy mindsets I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  my own meta-survey asking people to take surveys, is scientific either ... horoscopes, which is, “Horoscopes are pretty stupid but they’re fun because you ... to know someone’s personality is to...well...get to know them! I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... academic career, which is tough because there are empty spaces in more than ... using the other bathroom closest to my room, which is an entirely normal

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• 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…

  

  no pockets), but "nerdy engineers" is completely accurate. As we ... see, to be quite honest, Course 16 is not designed like many other ... success is familiar and widespread, used to describe teenage science fair

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... is new one that I am starting now that I am here at MIT, and in all

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016