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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  the end of term, and every posting space is filled with ads for various ... Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and ... recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  bystander effect is real. Like, in real life and not just in psychology ... It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually

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

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of ... there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... -lettered fraternities and sororities. Officially, the nine organizations constitute the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  is real and the 2022s know it"   Elizabeth C. ‘13 Pisces Goat ... know more about the bloggers, right?!?!) and I thought it would be cool ... results and their own identities, about the tests themselves, and even just

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the ... site because it's hilarious - and it's also where I got the above two gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in

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

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  /lactation room, and lockers. The lounge suite also has a Keurig for free coffee ... watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it ... lives of female faculty here']The history of women at MIT is long and rich

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  and rebuild new ones. Money can't purge your fears out of you. That's a ... AP classes and participated in extracurriculars but still didn't know ... immersed in experiences beyond compare, and that'll be all the justification

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  arrows spraypainted on pavement had become force vectors and free ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  to keep at it, trying to run four days a week and do miscellaneous free ... , for free time and a carefree attitude to take me wherever. I’m exhausted ... It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  success of High School Musical and similar films. Now I finally see "real ... On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the ... have PHIL 179, Race and Social Justice. I traverse the Yard on Mondays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  that are meant to serve people, often follow money and not necessarily ... current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  store and reheat, suffers little in terms of flavor. Friendly to ... apparently, not everyone cooks only eggs and toast like me.) warning: pictures ... [annotation note="Kessler, Ronald C, and Evelyn J Bromet. “The epidemiology of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  , and I told her about MIT. Unlike most people I had told, her reaction ... are so many awesome people to meet and activities to try (and so much ... , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you want, and balance money, passion, and family however you want. Next year ... yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next

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

  Mind and hand

  

  competition from my last entry). Next term, I'll be taking 6.002 (Circuits and ... is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with ... ) ...balance extracurriculars and schoolwork? As is only inevitable, all of the bloggers have already composed pages and pages on this topic during their

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair of sweatpants I'll wear exactly once. I'll board a yellow schoolbus and try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  other social and extra-curricular events becomes a free time cruncher. On ... Hi everybody, I play ice hockey in the winter and lacrosse in the spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  [annotation note="endearing term for alumni and garbage. but in this case i ... describe MIT as “drinking from the firehose.” So I guess the water and fire ... Spinning Arts club and pulling together two fire shows. The paper deadline

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021