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  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... version has one digit more.   At MIT, lecture is supplemented by recitation, led by TAs (Teaching Assistants). At Harvard, this work is done in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... schedule for spontaneous things. Don’t overcommit at the beginning. It ... “I’m not sure.” Smile and wave at everyone you know, even if they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... official website, and here's the Wikipedia page. This year, the Ig Nobel ... by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... to be able to take pretty much any class, in any department, at any ... wine tasting class, worked out at the gym, and saw several movies. My

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  746572636570746564: At a corner of the ceiling between the showers and the entrance are ... rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination. In a brain ... -tanned shoulders the Disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  heart thump, waiting… Things didn’t get any better when I arrived at the ... uncle and his family waving at me, unaware that it wasn’t over yet. Oh ... of them at once from the baggage-claim room to outside the airport

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  hyperbole, is it."]smart.[/annotation] # Most of us are not that way at MIT ... thinking about academics at all -- but you could pick out trends, in how I ... surprised when it’s a struggle. I have done this before, caught myself at a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  -end. Front-end focuses on the parts of the website that you see, and back ... 'm working on? I looked at all my previous projects and started chucking them ... project I intentionally reflected on. I knew I disliked doing it. At the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... mentored juniors, got selected as Google Student Ambassador and met many ... to shape it. Thank you for it. :) :) Hope things are good at your end

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  (Keep voting, guys! Remember, the poll closes at midnight PST on October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th ... at MIT...will it?) Melissa similarly queried: I'm coming from a school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... Saturday night, at all.  It is not something I had ever experienced before I ... making this up."]crick in your neck[/annotation] from looking at an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , Nathan H. '20, Sandy W. '20, Nia M. '20 We left our wing at 6:50 p.m. to ... , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... uproar seemed to increase by 10 decibels. They came up, two at a time, to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  ’ve been thinking a lot about how I’ve changed during my time at MIT, and I ... literally 0 times) at 10PM on Thursday. (It's not fun, in case you were ... people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on ... Confidential at some point and thought the idea of a bunch of competitive people ... Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Contents 1. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Women at MIT (1994) 2. MIT: The ... . Technology 1934 1. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Women at MIT (1994) 28 mins ... social challenges at MIT. The students and researchers in this video share

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  white striped button down. I waited in line at Cava next to the white, brown and East Asian Google and Microsoft employees while across the chasm ... think what they want when they look at me and spending my energy appeasing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... made, feat. Robby circa early 2011. wow. Amazing (at that point I hadn ... somewhat better at the design software I was using and procrastinated on my

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... our family history, which is still sitting in my Google Drive somewhere ... my life--school was hard, sleep was not happening, UROP-ing at the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life ... to take 8.02. Everyone who works at MIT is expected to innovate, to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old, memory a little worn away by time. I look at these years with incredible

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020