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  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless public school might have equal stats, more activities, and a much lower

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... irresponsible spending by writing a blog. i was in new york over the past few days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  want, just what I've got And if we sit and count it up, it's really not a ... -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week, but i've been slipping on that recently, because blogging has taken a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  Railroad was hardly a ride at all, at least in the traditional amusement park sense of it. It was simply a train that wrapped around Disneyland to help ... in the tunnels as you chugged along, like a dinosaur diorama showcasing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  with certainty is that about two and a half months from now, our nation ... have been thinking about 9/11 a lot lately, because unlike most of you, I ... normal fashion only to be thrown radically off course a quarter way through

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It ... application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... the experience of watching Hamilton is to compare it to finishing a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  . I really have learned a lot during my freshman year at MIT.  I learned ... get a break from problem sets, and there were weeks when I would have three tests over a span of 18 hours or less.  This semester, I took two

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... talk it out. For right now, we just ask that you have a little patience

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  allowed? One time, in my sophomore year, there was a blogger meeting where I ... sake of the blogposts. I was known on the blogs for having a lot of ... ), I also dug back into my old MIT email and re-read a lot of the very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... Arkansas! (I know that looks like a big bat but it's me!)[/caption] This ... institutions outside of their home state.  Planning the 5 stop college fair was a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go visit it a number of times throughout the semester, and then write about your experiences/thoughts in nature. Throughout the course, we read a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  Last year, I hosted a pre-CPW [annotation note="fyi this was streamed through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the ... since this tour, I'm now a little more delighted when I find orange around

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  this spring, i am doing a study abroad semester at Imperial College London. what this means is that i have been away from MIT for a little over ... for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house with many doors, and cats walking through the open doors. Each door has a ... " align="aligncenter" width="768"] It's like a cat door, except other cats

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  -- and we've each come up with a unique product, and have spent the last ... the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a crop top originally purchased for Barbie, and a t-shirt given to me by 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKMxRBYQs5k Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, remember to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People ... some form of a "month-long winter break". And it isn't not a winter break ... could try (and likely be unsuccessful in) compiling a list of activities

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  Cross-posted on my Substack here. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon ... the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy ... edited a Wikipedia page was when I was eleven years old. I think I edited

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT [annotation note="but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased happiness when everyone scores poorly together."]technically "does not curve

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned ... comprehension that it was indistinguishable from magic. that turned out to be a ... (7.26) and computation structures (6.1910/6.004) at a high level, the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022