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• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... out of my mind. I am taking not one, not two, not three, not four - FIVE ... esplanade on the northern edge of Boston along the Charles River. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  MIT in half of the articles on Popular Science. She is on Cloud Nine ... For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of ... facets of identity. There are so many nuances of friendships, academics

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  parts: 4 weeks of product management 8 weeks of software engineering ... basically had to do a lot of networking and running around and cold DMing and ... kinds of interviews. This is not meant to be an end all, be all guide to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  top-ten everything of the year completely unsolicited. TierMaker is my ... , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of what's better (kind of like the Challenge Towers from Mortal Kombat). Now

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  Note: all of my MIT essays can be found online so if you're curious ... applying to MIT, I knew I really, really had to write some damn good essays ... acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth ... will smile back. And science says you’ll be happier too! Not everything ... languages. There’s a joy in learning for the sake of learning. Or petting dogs

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  't that bad. That was one of my last reservations about committing to MIT ... of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... dropped none of them. The next semester, this semester, I learned to hedge

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... limits of what i thought was possible with present-day technology. in this post i’ll briefly summarize a few of my favorite readings from the class

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  . But as a bioengineer, some of the science they incorporated and the way ... movie about time travel ever made; it's one of my favorite movies of all ... digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  semblance of order instead of confusion-despair-and-fear, and suddenly my ... particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box, because this box is sad and boring, and there’s a whole wide world of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... of tips for applicants based on interviews I have conducted. Remember

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  trailers are right in front of Medical, and the line went in front of and ... long all day. Maybe it's because the tests of the five thousand or so ... , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  more (and better) advice, check out "The Science of Scientific ... and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of ... school reflect these qualities. Some of them are already in your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  those of you who have procrastinated and have not yet submitted your application, here are a few tips, notes, and words of wisdom: Submit ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  put on a seminar event about the intersection of design and science ... Monday, June 13th. 9:33 pm, in the back of Öz Konya Kebab: brightly ... all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend of mine approached me with an idea for a ... college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry ... 's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  living group, the Burton Third Bombers, on [annotation note="the weekend of the Boston Marathon"]the Sunday of Patriot's Day weekend ... Third) DTYD started in 1969 when two Bombers (Classes of ’70 and ’71

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  computer science and engineering to model the behaviors of machines. At any ... Science) sophomore, the MIT African Students' Association's webmaster, and ... many of our Course 6 freshman friends reach out to for help in their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  twenty minute drive from Disneyland, I had plenty of opportunities to go to the parks and have a lot of fond memories there from my childhood. I went to Disney World with my dad's side of the family around the age of 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022