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  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... . Anyways, the conference I attended was being held at Yale, and there I ran ... applying through QuestBridge not too long ago. He was volunteering at the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  facebook and my two teenagers, I’d be hopelessly inept at water cooler ... and other areas...nerds? “ Because I work at MIT and I have come to ... . But the ensuing string of comments didn’t agree with me at all. Her own

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  at MIT. I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It ... 's my (perhaps 'geekier') peers at MIT.... I don't come from an academic ... dropped out of high school and earned a GED at 17. So I'm a first

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  dedicate this post to my experience so far with academic advising at MIT ... Identity. At first I didn't know how to take the news. This placement was ... to shop around for a new one. At first I was actually pretty worried

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  there at Cambridge in my junior year than during my time here at MIT. The learning style is definitely different at Cambridge and requires a great deal ... , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology program! I'm leaving from Boston tomorrow at 7:50 AM and coming back Tuesday morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  suffer from being interminably on the internet. My parents always yelled at ... glass center table. My mind looked at the leaves. Those green and purple leaves. Why was my mind finding enjoyment in looking at plants? Was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  beautiful city in the world. I’m serious. It’s incredible. Look at this ... . So even on days when I’m stuck at home, going to office hours after ... just sit and stare at a river somewhere or peoplewatch in a park. I want

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  At MIT, the one-semester intro programming class, 6.00, can be broken into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting ... . Like many MIT freshmen, I liked being good at things, and I liked being

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  Moments ago, at 6PM Eastern Time, we released, via email, our ... enroll at MIT. As such, we are approaching the last of the many decisions ... enthusiastic!) offer. At long last, the deciding is almost done. Every year, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  . All these memories come to me at once, in the same time and place, and ... 's no reason for me not to begin, all i can do is stare at it and want to ... , from my future home at 2E in next house, from my classes. all these

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  -bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote ... ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year ... of people ask me whether it’s hard to be pre-med at MIT, particularly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  . Unless you are an international Olympian at being Kanye West (or uh, at Physics) you might be caught at some point, post acceptance giddiness ... up and figure out how I would measure up at that instant. What I didn

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  during your time at MIT. By the end of my four year stint I believe I was ... been created and had owners, likely administrators at MIT. So, what's a group of PSETing MIT students at 2 in the morning to do when they discover

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  against books at the dinner table is the fact that I was so stinkin' nerdtastic that I wanted to read at the dinner table... I DIGRESS. The point ... , so dinner at MIT looks a little different from dinner at home. Look Mom

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  't mutually exclusive (programming is fun, amiright?), they do at times hinder ... survived, and I'm pretty sure I passed" about a semester at MIT was exhilarating. Let's look back at the two aspects of MIT and see how they applied

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  , extracurriculars, office hours - so much going on that while I've started writing at ... following: 102 25 5 39 7 56 50 98 Any patterns jumping out at you? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  My classes start at 9:30 every morning this term. If the world ... . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... your chair. He spent four years waking me up at 5 AM for school, which is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a ... series of puzzles for the heirs to solve. At the end of the book, after ... foot (the American way of travel - look at how much Americans jog!) the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn, meant waking up at 6:30 in the morning. Let me repeat that. Six-thirty in ... to my first class at 10:00, that's a pretty big switch. Just pointing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008