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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... , classic YouTube Flash animations. And they got to say “hell” and “dammit ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  dorm with a dining hall will add a significant additional charge to your ... skates, or hoverboard for an easy commute, and wait to get used to the ... closest dorm to classes for four years, but I would not recommend it to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook ... had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... ’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 / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... days, you need two or three or five blankets and to lie on the couch for ... Afeefah for being able to make the leap!) This can be super hard -- like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that ... lecture (more than once (for an entire semester)) b) I decided not to do

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... constantly. I can never seem to hold onto one for very long, though this is the ... melt a plat for me, I’ve got to bring my own. Charging Cable Nest - I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with the assistance of the MIT guide to residences. One major component of this process are the so-called Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are ... , is "well, so release the data on everything else!" To which I ask: how ... . But Clay Shirky once gave a talk about how memes - jokes, YouTube videos

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... to notice and to contemplate. it's hard for me to really wrap my head around the idea of learning without structure, but i'm excited to see how

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• 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…

  

  (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to ... challenges. So when my turn came to introduce myself and share my reasons for ... joined Design/Build/Fly, learning how to solder, fabricate airplanes, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical ... pursue internships; one of my fellow panelists took a semester to work for ... thought it’d be best for them to go elsewhere for a bit. Neither of these

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended

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

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... about how much energy I have to do “work”, or “productive things”, I have ... always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even ... I really really really wanted to go to MIT. The love for that place I ... version of you that you can be. And if that place isn't the place for you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  new ones. I mean, I have a job. A job where I'm paying to work for them ... to help nudge me along on adventures and help find warm food for my ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .                                                        (Shanghai's Suzhou River) I asked my mother how to say “Sorry, I’m American ... , Jin Zhang, for her help correcting the Chinese language version of this post. Additional thanks to my mother for more Chinese-language editing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting ... to present my findings at the conference. Two weeks before the ... attacks, unable to move for hours lying on the floor. Some are still

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  to be asked for your resume, so you might as well make one now. That ... you're willing to learn, than it is to show off how much you already ... definitely wouldn’t hesitate to ask him for suggestions. Again: it helps to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011