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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -year-old kid in the park laughing at us from afar.   For Digital ... compare the two for fun. But anyway! During high school, I: Didn ... was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... , sometimes I think I won’t ever eat again for three days (which is obviously ... vague impressions of being horribly, horribly sad. For this blog post, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• 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

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good ... schedule for spontaneous things. Don’t overcommit at the beginning. It

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an ... ="79491" /] The MIT Application for Admission from Secondary School Introduction Set

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  for our family line--the Dynasty Family--that captured my hope that our chapter would thrive and grow after we left it (and reign for 1000 years ... treasurer   The seniors of New House 4, where I lived for most of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  drawing around since 2019 for good luck. A map of the US population ... student group that runs educational programs for middle and high school ... for everyone else I emailed.[/caption] Josh replied after a few days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  so for the rest of my MIT career, and maybe even further beyond. I even wrote about wanting to design bridges for my application to MIT ... watching a sunset walking across one. So, if you’re looking for that kind of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  . Similarly, N for buildings in north campus and NW for buildings in northwest ... ="495"] by john phelan, cc-by 3.0[/caption] That’s Building 10. Building ... branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this ... for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let the chance experiences and adventures serve as a guide for what’s next

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all Concourse first-years"]CC.110,[/annotation] that Aristotle argues that "what is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  volunteering for their communities the same way young people in the US volunteer ... teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... entire language for a regional accent. The language we learned didn ... me that for me tattoos meant gang affiliation, criminal behavior, and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... for the summer, [annotation note="an MIT volleyball player who’s won so many awards for being a stud at her sport that I’ve lost count, a sister

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  originally sign up for four and three-quarters, putting the last class on ... have lived in for the last three years, shutting the window because ... where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... for group psetting, it's okay to want to work alone. Maybe you work

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  to sell and make money, and making art for art's sake. Again, putting ... ? Overview Acknowledgments Searching for legitimacy Hunt history ... Fading together Never seen again Forgetting Recorded live For

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• 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.

  

  "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... 't a big deal for me, then. I was still healthy.   It's at this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... . Sidequest 9: Build a thing. I built (with a LOT of help) a shelf for my loft ... . (Warning: I’m about to wax philosophical for what will probably be several

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . SIPB sells the juice to ESP in exchange for fresh souls, which they keep ... .)     ivynewton ‘16: You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and ... can’t remember what it stands for anymore, but still you whisper it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015