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• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note="MIT's main entrance, located on 77 Mass Ave"]Lobby 7.[/annotation] i let my ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  , right when the application came out I jumped on it and was like, “I ... period of EXTREME STRESS, I finally submitted my application on Oct. 31 ... made (or think you made) on your application. This is normal. It shouldn

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

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  on Reddit that had a lot of really good questions about 6-3 that I didn ... based on enrollment, it's lopsided towards 6-3: based on the same ... 'm describing them based on the semester I took them, and not the most recent

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of ... up on making the deadline and was certain that I had said something ... painless in retrospect but I was a little stressed about it. On the ninth, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  ! That’s some pretty new territory on these blogs, but for us it ... since this is our introduction on these blogs. Here are our answers: Yes ... you get when writing the date on the first assignment of the new year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It ... choice considering all the options! — and snacking on some food, I went off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... like to add. Note your full name and "QuestBridge" on the cover ... accommodate you, some will accept late interviews on a case-by-case basis

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , as seen on Google Images. What could be more romantic than watching the ... very-very real, complete with torture and capital punishment. On a global

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  spend their windfall on travelling abroad, working an externship, or ... stretch of studying, is to sprawl out on the sofa and settle into some good ... ’ll try to keep it relatively spoiler free, but I make no promises about run-on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . The emphasis in Splash is on what you’re teaching, or how many classes ... reminding myself that, while MIT puts an emphasis on having technical skill ... presented this topic time and time again, I focused almost entirely on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... ;QuestBridge" on the cover sheet if you are mailing it in. Q: Where do I send my ... you, some will accept late interviews on a case-by-case basis

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  on wrong (but I might (so double-check everything)))). (Note that the ... are hosting events on Tuesday—and it also isn’t how I would plan my own REX, were I to do it again or were I to do it on my lonesome. (When it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a ... am on the first day (yes, at night), MIT students will present a series ... . Without careful consideration and planning, I saw myself on campus with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on ... with Quizlet flashcards on a whim. Perhaps one of my more useless whims ... maybe we were spending a little too much time hyper-focused on the parts

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which happened consecutively (from 9pm on Thursday to Noon on Friday). Ever since ... terrifying cyclones captured on a blank canvass might be beautiful—the kind of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  enough already, but seriously: What the heck happened on far West Campus ... processing power, for our tour inside. Mind you, on the outside W91 has an ... gigabits per second on its own, so yeah, you could say that we at MIT have

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  more than the planet it lives on. Joe is also an extremely talented ... blog post on her second-favorite admissions-related blog.   Yuliya ... written several novels, and is currently working on another one for her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten ... around. During CPW, I was just as lost on the MIT campus as they were. But ... stories to its death onto an equally bulky 400lb grand piano waiting on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on ... were just getting started on our campus in those days. Now the option for ... bus during the day on Sunday and I need to go to campus and it is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  - Shakespeare, Western Civilizations, chemistry, Pre-Calc/Calc, band, and so on ... multiple disciplines.  I talked about consilience on my college applications ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013