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• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  feelings. i spent the entirety of my saturday afternoon psetting for only ... would forget. i learned not out of curiosity and love for what i was doing, but for a letter on paper that i believed would determine

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... crippling laziness and go for a run in the woods behind my hotel, but until ... subconscious for months but that I’ve not had the time or emotional capacity to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  was there for. There had been signs up all over campus for a week or two ... review for those seniors who are struggling with the concept in the 7.01x ... for fun. I am a nerd. I don't think I became a nerd UNTIL I came to MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  had prepared itself for hours of hunching over a computer, debugging ... then for the remainder of the semester, you and your team build a fully ... . [annotation note="I got distracted for a full 20 minutes while trying to find

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to ... for each of the teams, and add a few "insider scoop" comments. Note on ... there was a live band that played a custom song for every. single. team

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  , and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more ... throughout the semester - I’ll spare you the details, for now anyways. Instead ... food. Cadet Julia Arnold ‘21 spent her summer working for the Air

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

   standing) at the college forum, wearing our high school shirts and MIT caps for ... to-blog list, because it is truly special. But for the purposes of this ... did anything for it to look good on an application (and tried instead to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  lately (which I found mostly began with ‘F’) (thanks for clicking on my ... bridge, and I’m starting to apply for jobs and work in tech and do those ... convinced myself that putting time or effort into appearance was for people

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to ... revolution. There are good reasons for the old system to be overhauled ... possible, allows for a personalized work path, and promotes innovation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  before I move away from the East Coast for a while. I saw two Broadway ... silent at night, except for the occasional other pair of adventurers or ... useful for people even if they never make a video again. And after the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  encourage them “do their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable and at home on our campus and the best way for you to be comfortable

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  has the benefit of being in the middle of the week for those of us who ... essay writing fun for an entire semester! Because it is a writing based ... -H classes, but the tutors for 24.09 were extremely nice and willing to help

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST ... totally reasonable concern). So much for waking up well ahead of time. I ... didn't quite have time for at the end, but I'm confident that my method

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we ... still works. I felt that I had passed a crossroads. For about six years ... . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  appreciation for the chocolate chip cookie (which we both think is TOTALLY ... !" without contracting hypothermia for much longer) - some people are laughing ... everyone else was celebrating - I was celebrating going shopping for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different ... change the way you think about writing. I keep Orwell's rules for writing ... .   But the same is true for college essays, as Orwell doubtlessly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  dadlike way, corrected me, kindly but sternly: I was not lucky, he said, for I had worked hard, very hard, for a long time. Both of these things ... fact, they are both necessary conditions for any kind of success. If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  , we found science/engineering fun and easy; thus allowing time for us to ... hard work, so I came prepared to reduce my nonacademic commitments. For ... could run in parallel to the course material. For example, I took 2

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  penchants. This is a common misconception. For what all of these millions of ... grew out of the ancient battles for Anglicanism, but rather an even more ... whom I advise, and who work for me, think of me as being almost

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  around for summer UROPs.  I'm Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and ... designed to be used for research on topics like flight formation and docking ... competitions for middle- and high-schoolers, culminating in a NASA

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011