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• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge?

  passion and talent to improve the world with the experience and resources of ... competition that awards up to $20,000 per team for the best ideas to tackle barriers to well-being.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed ... and maybe time will slow down enough for me to finish this exam or maybe

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... K. '18 has (almost) all the logistic info you need to have an excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  semester doesn't start until February; instead, we use January to do internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  to have you applying to MIT through QuestBridge. Here are some FAQs ... not need to complete the Part 2 (essays, activities, awards) - we will ... to the application fee, choose the fee waiver option. There is no need

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... -January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to ... call an Uber to get to the bus station, and get stuck in traffic. Rush

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  wow. I'm Joe, and I don't really know where to start this post. I ... cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted into this crazy place, to now being a blogger, happened so quickly, I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  Before committing to any major choice, I think you have to be ready and willing. As regards me and my decision to be premed, I had few ... . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  !) - published a letter to the editor from Folkers E. Rojas on February 28th that I ... Folkers' paragraph that begins "I started to paint again." Without further ado, here are Folkers' words: MIT is just another place Prior to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  't know what happened to your week. Fortunately, it's not most weeks of the ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... to find ways to occupy my time, they found me. Trips to Boston, chillin' in the floor lounge, going to see Wicked, snowball fights with Conner 4

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... . Welcome – MIT’s an amazing place (no matter what you’re here to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus Preview

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... to be included I have created a very simple equation: LΔ or Learning Delta. This simply means Learning Delta. Before you write in to challenge

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  definitely cool ideas from my classes that have stuck with me. I also got to meet cool people through classes, who have pushed me to think in new ways. I know it's easier to talk about liking a class when it's over, but

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... expected the faucet water to be lukewarm when I asked for cold, the way it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... together with other dancers to compute moves while walking to the beat, the ... to see the lights turned off and people napping, sitting on a couch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to be away from the blogs, since I'm so accustomed to posting every week. I wasn't sure if I wanted to talk about this on a blogpost, but I know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting documents completed and/or transmitted online) to recent COVID ... undertaken by prospective students that ultimately leads to a college choice

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to ... ’t believe it! MIT is like this entirely new planet in which I am yet to ... . Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for ... is to bring together global experts in areas ranging from cryptography

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016