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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  two more blog posts. I wrote them in the past, so you will have to ... from high school. Trying to find a parking spot in Spain. Ice skating ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... conference in the morning. Then we all realized that he was here to basically ... 't know how to run a company, but he also really lucked out in that it seems

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep ... of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... to finally 7. (in reality I should have been 9, but that's another long ... Premeds to have numbers around the 3.6-3.8 range. In terms of my GPA

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP ... being interested in science + wanting to help people and change the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... priceless. Yearbook photos just came in, and packages cost from $86 to about ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for ... come across in person to someone you've just met - how your face lights

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  calling. I haven't blogged in forever. I need to reply to that email. I ... "The Smiths." No one needs to see that in the background of my Zoom call. I am on the couch in the living room right next to the wi-fi router

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

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... in a kind of fear you didn't even notice, it's hard to let things go. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got to stay warm and cozy in my (over)heated room while it whistled and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  began to arise. 2x4s usually come in 96 inch lengths unless you ... we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory ... wood to the correct length in preparation and the evenings were dedicated

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few ... 21H.332: Christianity in America [annotation note="I went to ... considered majoring in (sorry courses 15 and 22). Congrats for making it to the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• 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 ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have ... competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  that I would love to talk about in future blog posts! All in all ... was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... were strained to see what was about to happen. In a few moments the ... relocated the Fleming cannon from Caltech to Cambridge in 2006. (If you like

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  best judgment. It’s okay to say no to things too. Leave space in your ... classmates is a good place to start. Staying in your comfort zone is easy, but ... , academics still trump clubs, since in theory you’re in college primarily to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while ... tables and desks in the lobby of the Nano building were a great place to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  home and be able to work through the night. I work in my room, on my ... in a few months. I have three and a half more years to keep trying ... ways that weren't helpful to me, because I didn't have enough faith in my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019