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  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  how different our grade system is and how we don't use GPAs etc. My counselor claims that because it is a selective english school with a harsh ... of a school abroad. My question is: Will this letter put me at a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to ... realized that my nine-digit social security number is prime. I don't quite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  Asian Youth Initiative conference. The purpose of this conference is to ... catch our bus to New Haven. It is very sunny and warm; naturally, everyone is in a very good mood.    2:15 pm - At South Station, we are

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  money is going to the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund. I've been working on this ... been recently. Also, a full text description of the images is at the ... , The pandemic is still weighing on you. Of course it is, but somehow that

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  you who are applying to MIT EA, the deadline tomorrow is probably one of ... experiences when they visit MIT for the first time is that the Infinite corridor isn’t quite … infinite. Disappointing, isn’t it?  The truth is that the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  rest of your application is compelling. 7xx will make us confident in ... , totally up to you. There is no admissions advantage to applying in one ... . English is not my first language. Should I take the SAT I or the TOEFL? Take

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  preface: this blog is comprised of various snippets I wrote in May ... thesis. also the writing is not very snappy oops the soundtrack to this blog is the album Blue Moon Safari by Air and Vegyn :-) Last fall, I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  this is entirely unique. I more so mean the entire air/media propaganda ... fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to ... doing much of anything isn't nearly as bothering to me as it is to the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  laps. My whole body is physically pulsing with warmth afterwards, and my breathing is slower and more even than usual. I definitely feel calmer and ... algorithm, which is a cool way of doing parameter estimation for complicated

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  .A. and New York have such distinguished vibes. This is a tragedy. Having ... ="104068" /] Monet is my favorite painter of all time (I would decorate my entire house ... into the Monet room for too long and just stared. My favorite part is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our campus is deceivingly large. Freshman year, I made the unfortunate decision ... .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... that perfectionism is purely evil, because I do believe there are cases

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence ... will become. And, as a consequence, who you become is deeply entangled ... envisioned. But what I want to tell you, is that you didn't do anything wrong

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  Woot woot! Simmons is now 20 years old! To celebrate this joyous ... cannot describe. 6. Modular furniture Each piece of Simmons furniture is ... . [caption id="attachment_83259" align="aligncenter" width="500"] This is an

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  /framing of the episode, which was just posted, is "What Kinds Of Students Does ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can ... look for a couple of different things. One thing is we're looking for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... group of people can form a legitimate support system is just incredibly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  is true that the white boys at my high school usually dated other white girls. It is true that year after year, the rich white kids were the ones voted onto homecoming court and student government.  But it is also true

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I've been a ... walkability of a city is, in fact, important to me. And although I do like ... just [annotation note="it is, in reality, physically a very small city as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  . The underlying white supremacy was one and the same; and it is still the ... Americans. Melanin is melanin, regardless of origin. And we all fight the same ... country as racially traumatized as this to heal with a president who is only

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020