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  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... documentary classes (that I took as a total fluke but ended up loving) Run a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  detergent, and the other in which we rinsed them. Each fabric was picked up ... ’d never stayed up for more than twenty four hours, not to my recollection anyway, until my very first night on the MIT campus. But I’d been up all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  had grown up in bigger areas was obvious. Most times when introductions ... , this deal is too good to pass up. Research. I mentioned one of the ... . Whenever my parents pick me up from the St. Louis airport and we embark on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  more vulnerable than usual, and everyone picks up on it, because a breach ... .  Of course, I was the one to uproot. I broke up with my girlfriend, who ... to it. I have to catch up to the corner and take a good look around

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  john. "but don't look up. feel it against your cheeks, or your ears. look ... , looking up would waste time; that was the lesson he wanted us to learn ... chatted. about sailing and other hobbies, about the cultures we grew up in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  traditions is coming up with the backronym. As mentioned earlier, HSSP doesn't really stand for anything now, so the directors come up with a backronym ... people to help set things up. We scheduled meetings with SOLE, and filled

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  properties for September leases usually go up around April/May, sometime ... can have [annotation note="the huge banner covering up an entire wall of ... , so my murals are limited to canvasses and papers that I pin up. Food

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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  , everyone else will arrive, flooding the student center, picking up shiny new student IDs, looking around with their parents, hauling boxes up to their ... up to the event. Our group chat was exploding with people asking for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just ... and lecture notes. This time I marked them all up with short summaries ... I don’t even know what to ask. I know I need to give them a heads up

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  party. i took my last final exam (6.006, intro to algorithms). i packed up ... dry-mouthed because of being up late afterpartying at sigep, but the ... dinner it came up that i was graduating and one of the powerchords asked me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... I figured I would suck it up and power through for the purpose of a ... take me. A cool artsy Course 4, perhaps? Not really up for all

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  independently wealthy from Google's acquisition of their start-up. OK, that wasn ... feverishly right up to the deadline date - and submitted, confident in my ... admissions blogs, staying up late into the night chuckling over adventures

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  semester of senior year racking up frequent flyer miles traveling between ... ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that ... pint of ice cream, and then went up to the reading room to study for the

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  crumple up the plan and go with something else. But that's improv. Today ... interesting title. I ended up TAing for him for three years. He chaired my ... 't decided to come out of my room and walk down to see what was up that one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  up to see above crowds at concerts. Everyone laughed when I talked ... divided up into three teams: Software, MechE, and User Interface (UI/UX). I ... model, our monitor and keyboard set-up, and many tools and wires up to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  measured up.  These days, I don’t share my exam scores with anyone, but also ... to class one month in because it was too difficult to wake up in the ... . 21W.013, which set up the way I wrote and approached essays for the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 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 ... for fifteen minutes. I woke up fifteen minutes later. I turned off the alarm and slept again. I woke up at 4:15 AM the next morning. Time is not

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

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  people in the movie who are "just friends" always end up married by the ... : “Hookups”, "hooking up": one night stands, making out a party, etc. One ... with their partners hooking up or being sexually involved with other

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... on Tumblr In hindsight, I am positive that signing up for a Tumblr ... chopped up at the stems like the sadistic maniac I am. Heh heh. Anyway, it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Friday morning I woke up at 7:00 after having gone to bed at 4:30 (PSETs ... then Julia and I headed inside. We saw a bunch of empty seats up front ... special enough to sit in those seats. We ended up about 7 rows back and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009