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  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least ... very few blog posts I wrote before MIT, I wrote: I am good at math. I was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  so far in 2009. Fact 2: in the four short semesters after enrolling at ... . My flight was the red-eye out of SFO on Friday night at 10:20 PM, and accordingly I scheduled myself to arrive at 9:00 at the airport – an hour and 20

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  artist in Taiwan who's at NTU (National Taiwan University). Impressions of ... :50: "There are a lot of geniuses at MIT, but there are also some that feel like ... student at MIT - see her MIT mug in front of her) 5:04 to 5:11: "There's a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  I am graduating (at the time of this being posted, graduated), I thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I ... two ✅ I’ve done two UROPs so far at MIT. Both of these were during my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  : There are four types of math major at MIT—pure math, general math, applied ... -intensive” class), and at least two additional math classes of your choosing. Here ... ramped up in difficulty gradually rather than all at once. However, I also

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  the ISEF judges).     #TFW you win at #Intel ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of ... dozens of students who have been to ISEF at least once, and many more who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... year and a half with that goal in mind, but I seem to be at a brick wall ... able to take AP classes, as they are not offered at my school. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Houston ... you figure it out), I proceeded from the hotel I stayed at Wed ... Jones waiting at the table for me... and any other prefrosh. No matter, I was on a mission. Since Matt Mcgann was occupied on the phone at the

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  Financial Aid Office at 617-253-4971. Every time I've called during business ... -related reasons. If you would like an extension, you can either email our office at admissions at mit dot edu or call us during business hours at (617) 253

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very ... career at which I would have got a 100% on this quiz, but after a very limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they’re being held taut under tension. Emotionally, I feel as if I’m caught at the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  keep up with someone who knows what they want to communicate at every ... at R, now a popular tech company, and how working there was very ... using his work. i asked him if his time at R would still have been

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to ... the undergraduate perspective at Next. Four days later, when all of the hullabaloo was finally over at Next House, and all the first-year students had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same ... . we're not getting paid for any of this. we just like it. at times, it ... such a large scale, sheerly because you're interested in doing so. at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  punted it down the road, and some made no changes at all. For me, it seemed ... to discuss this at instructor office hours, which would not occur until ... afternoon; I sat there at my desk, fuming, not really doing any work as my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a quote that sat right above his whiteboard, visible at every place in ... understanding. In that class, every time I looked up at that quote, I felt my ... something in STEM, solely because I liked it well enough and I was decent at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight ... Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon. Except it’s not that simple. Some days, I wake up at 8 by some messed

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  twelve friends, where I’ll stay for at least for the next 2.5 months ... , Purell, and surgical gloves. My sister pick me up at the airport. It was still so normal two weeks ago, just two sisters laughing at each other

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at MIT. I realized I've been learning wrong my entire life, or at least ... really stupid" or "Yeah, I don't understand anything at all" as crutches

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -driven input than at MIT (though there has been a history of MIT students ... poetry slams. There are also free talks at the Harvard Book Store that are ... summer, there were free museum hours during the Summer Solstice Festival at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019