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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  stuff we did to have fun lock in this semester. [carousel image1 ... . As Aiden beautifully describes in his blog on studying for finals, this part ... [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... explained in one of my earliest blogs, freshman Cami learned the importance of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... room and found my bed to be covered in playing cards, inside and out ... to ride in a chariot, it was priceless to see the reactions of passers

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• 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

  

  together, and when he was in high school they liked to make rockets, too ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  blogs and from talking to friends at school, is that many many many ... the book that was going to be covered in lecture, go through online ... me to attend lecture in person, so I didn't. I watched the lectures

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

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... told me to come down. So I put all my things in the locker and ran to the ... to a video of students who celebrated the capture in the streets of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• 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…

  

  incredibly rejuvenating when used correctly. In fact, this seems to be the answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... friends who weren't afraid to spout Maxwell's equations in regular conversation and then go back to talking about Jersey Shore in the same minute. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  Tumblr where people made daily blog posts, in case you're curious about the ... to the B-Entry lounge in MacGregor to film with some cow livers, and ... opposed to every other lab in campus, which have busy grad students working

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... , in order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  to lose yourself in. oh, you're losing sight, you're losing touch all these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... forgot to turn in until I was almost back in my room. That meant I had to ... was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... would want to play in college, and honestly, I hadn’t thought about it ... became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... both in and out of the classroom. In addition to all my neuroscience and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated attempts, he was denied a commission in the service: not, Washington fancied ... context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to

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

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they ... medical school in Fall '12 were asked to answer a series of questions to ... school process. In the meantime, feel free to email in with any questions

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the ... initially I wasn't too excited to spend one long day working hard in the shop

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

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... even knew anyone who was in their 20s, but now you do, and I am here to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012