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• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... class in the morning. Part of me still feels like I’m seventeen and back ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  week away (*cough* *cough*). And I waited! Then, the week of the deadline ... 't be, but it is! And of course, the normal anxiety that comes with ... !). I submitted that the day before the deadline. And, of course, I used

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... beeping oh god the beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired and then it ... , which made for a frequent point of contention between me and my once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking ... Democrat has the rest of the story: For 18 years, Maria and John Hildebrand ... was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  was in a tremendous amount of pain. So I got the boot. And I healed ... to the edge of the room, and somehow made it to where the people were ... control of the classes and everything else that gets thrown at us and making

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  called 'To the Deferred' - and I want to now add to the words expressed in that entry. First: to those of you who got in - congratulations, and ... ten minutes, I sort of just stared at the wall and let tears fall

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• FAQ / Visit

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• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  do tomorrow. My lack of focus causes stress, and the stress is in turn ... first semester. The going to a dining hall feels like more of a time ... get to my goals” and employ the solution of “suck it up.” I for one

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  doing behavioral analyses and studying the immunohistochemistry of zebra ... and snowsuits, even though this is one of the most humid summers I ... , salarymen, and even train conductors, but Japan is also home to some of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  scene. I knew, the instant I saw it, that the stress and pressure of ... freshman over the course of a semester. You start ready to work and soon ... I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  for the past few months. First, for some students, there are early ... complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships ... -Help portion of your financial aid, at least at MIT) while at the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown ... of genius at age three or four. After returning from visits to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  Fraternity rush and sororiety recruitment, cornerstones of the ... , the President of Panhel and Evan Wang, the Programming and Recruitment ... from the stress of life and academics, the chance to have unforgettable

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of ... complete a final written project. No prior knowledge of "Sex and the City" is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  four different outfits before deciding which combination of shorts and ... of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... ’m running out of socks. I spend an hour picking out socks on the Internet. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... down and hit up an onsen (hot springs) at the base of the mountain. It ... something truly to be said about the masochism of MIT students, and as I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  folks who handle the logistics of processing and inputting MIT mail into ... . I know that many of you haven't heard yet, and that it's enormously ... say that (1) the Post Office is dealing with insane amounts of mail due

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to go to classes and stuff, so he was expelled at the end of his ... for a number of reasons, including their library facilities and the ... for the possibility of double-majoring. My first year here, my floor had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  my first year as an Admissions Officer and I was really impressed by ... all the details and getting everything ready for the online submission ... project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  has never written a program in Malbolge, and the first Malbolge program ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is ... "]more difficult[/annotation] than for some of the other languages in this list

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022