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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  only printed and not uploaded anywhere online because the file size was ... current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his words, such as Things #1, #35, and #50, have gotten me through hard times ... right away, and it might feel like nothing could go wrong. But in college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... , wearables, and IoT, taught by none other than [annotation note ="Joe is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  surprising number of late nights and amount of last-minute tooling this term ... applications, my UROP, being a news editor for The Tech, and, well, living. The ... .614 (Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures), and I knew from the previous

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  having fun, and they were doing it guilt-free and not under the guise of ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT ... cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  ="Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living Groups, the catch-all term for living groups ... , advertising free dinner and Tosci's ice cream. [caption id="attachment_64959 ... recreated it online, called it CP✱, and did it anyway. There was haiku and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  next house. it felt good to finally be earning my own money, and spend my ... what real research and lab work is like!"]urop[/annotation] during ... phenomenon j-term. functions similarly to summer break but shorter and colder

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  way to Cambridge, UK; even though I miss him, I'm so happy and proud ... ? Continent, city, country, society: the choice is never wide and never free ... be? I miss MIT. I miss the community, the atmosphere, and the free Wi

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College ... real people (I’ve seen them! I have proof!). And when they tell you ... perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test

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

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  , in better condition, and better trained to take on the challenges, and ... rendezvous while you're there. Enter a competition and win money to change the ... Card and head on over to Symphony Hall for free BSO concerts; find the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  past and future to create better conditions for the present generation of ... we hadn't really done before, and to get to leave a "mark" in terms of ... are from real murals - we wanted to have an LGBT theme, and the "You are

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  . Desserts offer more flexibility in terms of color and textures, and after ... ’m making the assumption that you’ve seen the show and will not go over plot ... this happened and what the food means with a lot bit of fangirling. Enjoy

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  think and what we share online, which eliminates a prolific use of Twitter ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... time I went home. Put the quality on 1080 and see the color green unlike

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  . Its courses are available for free online at OpenLearn, OU ... , instruments, and lab access. iSpot is an online community for the study of ... : online + on-campus, online + matriculated + distance learning, and online

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  “lifestyles” and races, so when I showed up for CPW and met real gay people and ... out.” I didn't use that term to describe me at the time and it doesn ... part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I ... check, and I realized that they were probably staring because the center

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  Medical and Mental Health are free and confidential for registered students ... notices. Stock up on free Career Fair t-shirts and Orientation swag. Claim ... and Chris Peterson here -- On the Conservation of Frosh by Rachel D. ‘16

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  . Recognizing the intensity of my course load in the past two terms and after ... students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024