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• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... simultaneously did and didn’t alter my family dynamic. Let’s start at the ... -American heritage often have to come out “in actions rather than words.” When I’m at

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to inform students about the opportunities and resources available at our ... in school? That last question came from a student at a high school

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  . [annotation note="or almost everybody, anyway."]Everybody[/annotation] breaks at ... grades are recorded as a pass (meaning A, B, or C) or not recorded at all ... set at night and rise again in the morning. I could not have everything

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  good at dealing with it, and so my typical strategy was to pretend that ... my face, so instead they hinted at me and, I'm guessing, waited until I ... school); I was an American citizen, uncommon at my Canadian high school. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  write about your classes. Seriously, look at this mess. (Realistically ... since I took it in high school. I’m terrible at understanding concepts in ... to CS Programming in Python: I’m awful at programming under a time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS ... Political Science at MIT as “basically statistics” and Philosophy as ... ’ve taken have resulted in 2 summer UROPs with the instructors, one at Harvard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  honestly about their experiences with MIT. these stories reflect the blogs at ... graduation data showing that students who lived at senior house during their first semester at MIT had the lowest graduation rate out of all the other

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  , clone, et cetera was confusing at first, but by the end of the first week ... Skiing is a class I thought didn't exist at MIT until I looked at the PE course catalog for IAP. Every Tuesday and Thursday night at 5pm, you get on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  Phoebe (@phxbe) on Aug 14, 2014 at 10:56pm PDT (I haven't updated ... importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at ... that class at all and I was fine," not "I spent hours making up the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT ... until my eyes fell on the word “nanotechnology”. At the time I wasn’t very ... like them. I wanted nothing more than to be at MIT with them. The second

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  is rather odd, but there you have it. Since this is the case at an ... the window seats, I work best at the long outlet tables, preferably when ... , I have to get at least 6 hours of sleep the night before. If I get 5

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo ... Speech at Stanford, Steve Jobs said, “Have the courage to follow your heart ... choice has been made for us, what we can change is how we look at the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... . However, all of the assignments were due at the same times and the amount of ... class. That's right, I GOT MY FIRST A AT MIT!!! I am so happy!!  I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  notifications up the wazoo. 7:13pm - My Floor I went out to lunch at a Japanese ... I could play with at my leisure. Can anyone PLEASE explain to me how ... ; And some shenanigans: 2am - My Room At around 11:50pm, Sarah '17

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  . We set up camp at the lower falls: Jennifer stayed behind to watch ... hurtled around a corner and there, a couple of meters ahead, a snake at ... . I thought: "That snake is at least six feet long." I thought: "I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had ... known as "the smart one" or "the guy who's good at biology" or whatever ... than yourself at any top university. What tipped the balance towards MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  Freshman Learning Communities Your first year at MIT is all about ... to Concourse in that what they look at is an intersection, the ... through Wednesday, for at least 3 hours a day. This forces you to get into

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  much time; at midnight, a blogger moratorium kicks in. To respect the ... , at 12:30 this afternoon, I zipped up my big poofy winter coat, tugged ... French House freshmen, and he back to campus. As I got off the bus back at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  without it are at no disadvantage. We will accept your school's own ... take 2 weeks. You do not need to worry at this time about documents that ... not send a second copy of any document at this time. Also, you do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior Haus (where I lived as a freshman) and at Theta Xi (where I live now). As ... community at MIT, and I don't often talk to other MIT students about the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011