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  deep talks , strange person

  

  activation energy for doing so was dummy high and because I didn't want to miss ... somewhere after finishing a difficult assignment, and then suddenly it's 6 am ... . Anyway, one thing that I've started to do with my friends is playing the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ,000 high schools all across the world. Though they all do different things ... — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  , truthfully doing. Because I have come to a realization. We spend every single ... take place, we never make it a priority to sit down and really understand how a person is doing. “How are you” is asked quickly and instinctively

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  asked by prospective students. What kinds of clubs do we have?  Usually ... research opportunities are available? In preparation for a visit program, I ... and a bit chaotic, but several things were happening at once: my meeting

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  wish I had more time to do. I actually have a list: 1. Visit the Museum ... my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm ... ?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  do daily information sessions. This summer they have been in Lobdell in the Student Center (a building otherwise know as W20). It feels odd for me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  , seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow-apart-and-that's-just-a ... relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for ... with a reversed brass rat and ironed shirt Killian Court Lecture Series

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,000 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 389 applicants -- approximately 3% of applicants -- a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  , of course.) It's a balancing act, certainly. But I do feel prepared ... It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with ... community. (This last one is a bad idea - with such a low admit rate, it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn't do ... the world really do become funny with a little time and distance ... more] So, those are some of the highlights. Do you have a favorite Ben

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  you had less to do. cj: to be fair, it is a privilege that i didn ... have struggled with purpose before. it's not a new feeling to be doing ... don't spend doing something productive is a waste that i could be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  resources to do so and still remain a productive member of a company ... my FIRST Robotics Team. “Why do you want to spend your birthday in a ... Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... ’s a green house, inspired by the one across the street from my parent ... value contrast is nonexistent. A couple more layers of paint could make it

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  a conflict. What were two music nerds to do? We e-mailed Professor ... . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  Emilienne, a sophomore studying Biological Engineering and French, has had a UROP in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department since ... a time where she can “focus on pursuing research questions which

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  , then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line ... plan to do research at the intersection of Robotics and AI. You and I have actually met in person before (when that was still a thing that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... the Academic Record page for like the n! time, it was a strange feeling to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  ="83493" image7="83503" /] and also here's a little video of daniel and max doing ... ." me: "OH!!" a few minutes later we were all outside trying to catch snowflakes on our tongues. except for daniel, because apparently he tried to do

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  usually do not, so I might miss a couple of things here and there but ... past 5 years so it is definitely a steep, steep learning curve and I ... they are mundane to show you what life is on a day-to-day basis at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  ) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption ... was busy, sure, but it wasn't a disaster. Practice working harder

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020