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  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in ... myself as an individual at my school. Simply put, I wanted to be the best in everything I did. Then, I came to MIT.  Here, everyone is the best

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... , the experience isn't describable, and I didn't even attempt to take

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  ThirtyEight) "It's easy to compete with stupid." (on why he's been able to beat the ... currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the ... measure of his success on Election Day) the guy behind possibly the most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  -athlete: “The basketball team comes back early on December 26th to get ready for ... important to communicate with them and make sure that we were on the same page ... Course 20 friends (Shoutout to Lauren D. on the soccer team and Sydney H

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  isn't like me. Not like me in the sense that had we gone to the same ... had fabricated something out of nothing. I clung on to my friend because ... 've got a pset I forgot about!" "Whoops, left the stove on haha..." "Yeah

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... /herself) having gone to the Institute. After several study and work abroad

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... . Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Carnival, The Inner Game of Tennis, the Spencer booksAdvice about applying to ... yourself is going to lead to the right outcome for you. This is true in ... Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  Meara to work on 3.091. Clifton '09 was there, and when I sat down on the ... discovery a few days later. I was on my way to the MechE computer lab to work ... spectacularly. Like last night, we lost 1-0 in double overtime on the road and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... link to the news video; click on the picture of the video camera] ... math, and now it's paying off. He's preparing to leave for Boston on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  . I present to you: immersion.media.mit.edu. The Collective Learning group at the Media Lab put together a VERY COOL THING (that seems to be ... ’s also LITERALLY MY FAVORITE THING ON THE INTERNET AHHHH. Basically, it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive ... foot through many a congested intersection to the Cambridgeside Galleria in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... forward a year, and I've had some new thoughts on the matter. I've always ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... to the lake shore, it’s just us and the geese under a cloudy sky. We ... might try to make this a habit in the future. 12:00 p.m. I have leftover

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a ... , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  me, so I always jump on the chance to clean it up as soon as I have ... that I have enough space to fit in everything on the floor, and then to ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  lounge as the night wears on, sitting on sofas or the carpeted floor ... hours of sleep than I could count on one hand. The other hand usually ... pay the bills. It is a side pursuit for when I am not writing. I used to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on-the ... . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... lived in the lodge then. It had been threatening to rain all day-- darker

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  [/annotation] on how the battle mechanics worked and then we actually got to play the ... immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the ... a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting ... 32 (aka the Stata Center) and taking questions, so I ran on over. The ... to the third largest Cambodian community in the world behind Phnom Penh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005