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  Semester Reflections

  

  individuals to us meeting people as twins was a lot higher than in the past. We ... assume this translates to their first impression of us as being part of a ... , confused and hesitantly, “would you happen to be a twin?” I replied, also

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  because MIT is such a great school. "When we were deciding where to go to ... . "This is a great new opportunity. We will be exposed to so many new things," said Taylor. "We are going to a school with the best academics and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  friends probably could've told you that. I've moved to San Francisco, a ... and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... bothering me. I've opted to try to ignore it. And it makes me feel guilty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  renting a van once there to take all the way back to Boston. We must be back ... check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just ... promising I would never be late to a flight again, I was promptly late to a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first ... [annotation note="read: more willing to spend a little more for added comfort ... along the northeast coast. I’m listening to a playlist I made in 2016

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  , from 9 AM to 5:30 PM four days a week (which I took last year). This ... 49 hours a semester, but if you want to be really good at your job you ... concert (which actually turned out to be a very bad mistake, because Tom

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  friends seem to be coping pretty well. In fact, a few students apparently ... the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few ... Building. Intrigued, I wandered over and began to notice a few strange shapes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your ... to me by the Admissions Office through the Shadow a Student Program

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... attempting to define it, here’s a concrete example. Suppose you draw two points on a sheet of paper. If you want to connect those two points

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a ... talking to your professor when it's you, them, and a few other students who ... submit entirely to ESG, you don't have to. It's a good way to get to know a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  . After my brother left, I told myself to make a sandwich and I made my ... Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a ... shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  to hear that 20 percent of the undergraduate population at MIT plays a ... emphasized? There’s a lot of ways to answer that, but I think the most ... practice for a few hours to play the sport I love. There’s nothing better

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  view:     It's good to be back to campus, now as a senior ... , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating ... currently sprawled open to reveal a typical sight. 18 hours remaining! must

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with ... one box, so you can imagine that I have quite a lot of work to do over

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  school students to make their craziest ideas a reality. Your idea doesn ... in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... was a ~little~ hard to see. Around that time I first heard of neural

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  crazy how much a few years of perspective could bring to the movie ... cinematography was so contentious, how Stanley Kubrick managed to make slow action ... th century, so a number of motifs were developed to imply sexuality in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  your beliefs about the number 7.) I took this as a challenge to ... out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... copious amounts of food, you need to rethink your definition of a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came ... you have to shoot an m&m in order to make it all the way down the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward ... feeling of transferring income to a savings account. by august i grew to ... orange fading into blue. not having work to do after work was a blessing

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  would need to do it in a satisfying way.. ..which is okay! Because ... in them. This course will expose you to a range of questions regarding ... makes a society just. Must a society protect individual liberties in order

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016