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  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  come in the door and that you're ready for MIT's really challenging, fast ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into how we think about issues that have been discussed on the blogs for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  excitement for what's really happening. Now, when I write, it feels emptier and ... up for hours and hours hating myself as I reread the same paragraphs ... for my 6.006 pset, I just started snapping back with angry, aggressive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... became even more confused in college; for example, I became much less ... quite literally been working toward MIT specifically for about six years

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  month of January to prepare for the show, dancing from 6-11 every weekday ... week of December, the team held Mocha Formal and met to discuss ideas for ... . after Formal, the captains deliberated on which ideas we would do for the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  are some of them. All based on true stories, of course.  For those of ... got this. No matter what happens, I’m so proud of you already for ... experiences when they visit MIT for the first time is that the Infinite corridor

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... for Undergraduate Research OPportunities. As my family demonstrates, it ... so grateful for my lab. This blog is about how I found my UROP and what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  though I had prowled the East Campus website extensively and seen pictures ... college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For ... residents went back and forth for a few years, reportedly until 1972. After

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  It's time for another Questions Omnibus... Mike wrote (re: MIT ... for Early Action because the post office is messed up currently. I can get the materials postmarked for November first but I am not sure if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  collegeboard website says 3-5 weeks, I'm guessing this is just for the letter ... . Please don't worry, and there's no need to call the office for at least ... laugh, connect with us. But you don't want to give us reason for pause

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  two days prior, when I flew back from San Francisco to Boston for just a ... minutes for a domestic flight – not bad, right? Well, it turns out that ... number of times the self check-in has actually worked for me with this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  for Future Course 6-9s Memes Individually, "Course 6" refers to ... sheep brain. After camp, I forgot about neuroscience for a while, until ... enthralled by the vast opportunities that computer science could unlock for me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  'll explain the reasoning for these rankings below in my four-year class roadmap ... community for students with an interest in the blend of STEM and humanities ... college sports for the first time, had just joined my sorority, and was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  cannot get here fast enough. My brain is very fried. There's only a couple

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I failed dance class. Good thing that failure did not determine the rest of my academic career. Fast forward 16 years and here I am a senior at MIT. Interesting how that happens

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  around campus, taken from interesting angles, and the goal for each is to ... exploring it for four years. CJ: If by exploring you mean “living on campus ... -188! We have the room number! We’ve attended this institution for two whole

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  have to relax,” she told him, not for the first time. Ted favored her an ... for his shoulders, her arms clamping gently onto them. “Have a seat ... have been mistaken for a safe box with a screen. From within it, The Real

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  he is as a person (see NPR, TIME, and his own website, for starters ... departments have literally designed websites for students to find pset partners ... side and that each section has much food for thought, so feel free to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Admissions website color scheme (but for the purposes of the Welcome, I ... Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush ... theme for EC this year was cyberpunk, I heard PATD quite a bit this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  've[/annotation] known cj for 3.5 years now. though the first 6 months it was very much not ... fast enough to win $400 in. time passes. yannick, who was in cj's pod ... difficulty for that to actually matter. also, i think shadows is the best

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  bad for making my parents worry. I would start going to therapy about a ... little moments where I would crack. Where I would think about it for too ... vacation in Vancouver for Veteran's Day Weekend with my mom. Simply put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020