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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  gig. If I was chosen to be part of the team, I would get to code ... undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their ... . (Though listings are far from the only opportunities available - if you're

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  your work apart! Special thank you to the system inspectors with ASC for ... that the teams must get to by a certain time. However, other than that ... reached this point without your help. Additionally, thank you to ASC

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to gain access to your...terrain. The next morning, Spencer dropped me ... to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  school doesn't calculate GPA, please don't convert your grades to a U ... Please don't be overly concerned about your class rank or GPA (grade point average) or even whether your school calculates them. With our
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which ... improved immensely. I was able to  get my checkoff, a live session where we ... counterintuitive to the human mind. One solution was to simply kill your darlings, or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  compensate. On your way to your destination you will pass by many people ... get the cart up into the office, and I reckoned it'd be best to avoid ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  being rich and partying all the time. No, I don't want to go to your ... .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound ... fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  't get enough), I made my way to Tech East, one of the sections of CES. The ... startups in completely different industries. I didn't get to see much since ... vibrating your cheekbones and speakers that are only audible to people who

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  into the room at all. So this year I was determined to get the beach ... one day. At this point I was getting pretty discouraged. If you're ... come from?! I want it back!" And just to refresh your memory as to how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  . I wanted to impress people around me and I wanted to get a job? And even now ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  in  IAP?”, “do I also get to Dance in a lion, or a kaleidoscope ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really close to campus, actually. Like, so close that I get this breathtaking ... schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  alone. It’s hard to value companionship until you’re starved of it, and ... get used to. Eventually, I made the decision to attend MIT—how could I ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  they do it by weight but you can ask to weigh your pot in between getting ... the moral is to GET YOUR FLU SHOTS KIDS IT’S FLU SEASON AND IT’S NEVER ... ’t have enough ice cream that day, we walked over to get a second round of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world ... offer that expert food, he or she is probably more than happy to talk to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  side to side, because I get splitting head-and-shoulderaches afterward ... Yesterday, I got up early, despite having gone to bed late the night before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  but unfortunately I think I'm going to be awful at answering your ... Responses to comments: Edward: Hey, thank you for answering my question...though you kinda took your time but all in all I really appreciate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  , if you can manage to share your misery with enough friends at the same ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  request] Kudos to you and your eagle-eyed observation skills! Indeed, I was ... entails being able to tread water for ten minutes (hey - you also get to ... high school, I always felt that PE was something tedious to get through

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... to get students to talk to me, but this is understandable -- it took me ... "smart" and it would be a pity if I didn't get to use my brain as much as I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022