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• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  you want to pursue and the two sides conflict, it can start to feel like ... , before the bacon police come after me or (as previously warned) Chris and ... busy. I didn't use to think I was the kind of person who liked being

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the ... deranged. And don’t even get me started on quantum “computers”. I bet you ... sleek and elegant computer you’re probably reading this on right now

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat ... because this is one out of only two in-person lectures, the other one being ... . the bigger reason is that the class, despite being under our cs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at ... less spent the past few weeks curled up in bed reading and ignoring the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how ... social creatures, and learning from what our friends do and taking on those ... , and if all my friends jumped off the Harvard bridge... well, actually

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was ... extensions on psets and essays when i need them and bracing myself against the ... . We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Rockwell (where Marilee spoke and the Logs sang), picked up some liquid nitrogen ice cream via the Prefrosh Festival on the way back, and I've been ... here at midnight and can proudly say that my registration butt has been

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  producing and is rumored to also be in the film. I don't know if you caught ... Chairman of the American Conference on Diversity. I'll be answering more ... 'll be reading them this week and posting some of them next week. Good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  water and steadily increase their mileage. The blog can't handle the width of these images, but you can see the full chart and a large map here ... Brief background: I try to be healthy. I don't eat junk food, and I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  between things you can control and things you can't, and that where you ... The MIT freshman application for the prospective Class of 2022 is now ... ;   You know what to do. Be yourself. Be good to others. Take care of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  ; I don't actually have it and I can't find it online, but if memory ... them is "earn 8 PE points" and I should really get on that because I ... published in The Tech," and that's one that I just never thought would happen

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  can pretend to be; indeed, you are compelling and interesting enough as ... reason to start on them now, but some people like to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  .091[/annotation] and [annotation note="Introductory Biology. Satisfies the Biology ... first year at MIT, but I feel less excited and more dissatisfied about the ... new people and hang out with old friends, out of the fear that they won

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Years Eve! Also, the CSS Profile and FAFSA are about to become available ... applicants). These forms can be pretty confusing, so if you have any questions ... With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  to be told. And that scared me. Now the semester is ending, *I look up ... sunlight subtly and softly trickles into the room just like it did all those ... this feeling (that I can't quite pin down), and I say that I love it or

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  experiences, beyond the idea of “i can make a post on instagram and get some ... were due to be the worst two weeks of my life (hyperbole), and i did a ... , people watch, and reflect on how you should compensate for your

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  learned about on Day 1 and learned plenty about operating the 360 camera ... be able to keep all the equipment for a little over a week and that we ... wanted to, both on my phone and the 360 camera. I looked for angles, hills

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update We plan to release Early Action decisions on Monday, 12/15.

  

  on Monday, December 15th. In the next few days, we will send EA applicants an email on how to access the decisions online; I will also post a copy of that email here. We'll have more details on the decisions in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  slamming my laptop lid shut, running around the house screaming, and ... what first made me notice MIT, it would be the blogs. You see, when I ... all the previously mentioned Awesome Stuff that it offered. And I loved

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first ... school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and ... sign to hang on the side of the coop. The structure they built actually

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020