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  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  overconfident frosh deciding to take on too many commitments after having it easy ... relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  second day of recitation) "It's possible that the thing you want to call ... actually doing arithmetic, or calculus, or whatever you want to call it ... personalities. When I say that, I'm not just referring to undergraduates, but also

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  inbound train to city hall, figuring it to be a good place to start. From ... wasteful for the vendor to give him a knife, since he was planning to eat it ... noted that it was refreshing to eat a meal in which all noodles had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  comfortable. I began to understand it was possible for me to find niches where ... feeling might be coming to me again soon. After all, it has come before. The ... of December, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts with a friend. It was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  ? Probably it will end in ice, if we are to believe this year's Nobel Laureates ... Prize in Physics in 2009), opened the possibility in the 1990s to add more ... everything is possible again. Congratulations, Adam Riess!  We look forward to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  after but not the in-between. It is, after all, easiest to picture the ... slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it ... maximum height (minus its initial height, the distance from the ground to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It ... success that it was. To most of you, this puzzle probably ranged somewhere from a pleasant distraction to a moderate disturbance, but to me, it was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  dream could have been realized. But alas, the show is only airing its first episode tomorrow (watch it now by clicking here). “Eight high schoolers design and build machines — from dragsters to an automatic pancake

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  no longer possible to wing it. The volume of complex information and skills to be mastered is simply too great to be able to figure it all out ... 've had to learn at MIT is: hitting a wall is okay!  Actually, it's great

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  have not yet named -- then I want you to know that it is okay, and that it is normal. It is also okay, and it is normal, to feel a sense of ... , and why you are. Personally, it took me a full year after commencement

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be ... conviction to pull it off, but maybe i’ll come back to it in a few years another possible answer is to leave school but to not move on. my friend

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  waters (and thought, oooo this is Ice in state Ih, one it's 15 possible ... hack of 2013! A great way to start, after last year's concluding one on ... Oh how the months have passed- from fall season to finals season to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  , but will not rule it out). To be considered for a blogger position, you ... have a current blog, please send a link to it. If your blog is locked ... us to see. (You don't need to clean it up -- we will understand that a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  "yield"), we admitted 1597 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... 100 students from the waitlist. So, it's hard to know how this year will ... students. But we're not strict about it. So, if an oboe player decides to go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  self to stop worrying. Nor should I. Worry was inspiration. It’s why I ... ’t tell. Sometimes I return to that vision. It’s enticing. Not abysmal, as ... ? It felt silly and enlightening then to recognize that twelve years of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  Hey all, sorry to be absent for... what has it been by now... three ... get into MIT, it IS possible. You can survive. The real question is ... hard,” we mean it. You may have to rethink your study skills. Some people

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second ... for it being late. Also, I thought it was hilarious that I had to write ...  about what it is like to not be well at the end of a semester, and it is not fun

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  interested him the most (and seemed possible to solve), he took it back to his room and thought about it a lot. He found the process to be very relaxing ... trying to get it published. Before speaking with Boris, I had never

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  , while waiting for my MIT decision and even after it, the chatroom provided ... floor in our scramble to collect as many balls as possible. Right as we ... balloon, I decided it was time to high tail it over to the Meet the Bloggers

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  should be completed as soon as possible after completion of the fall semester (or after completion of the second quarter, if your school uses a ... some answers. On mitadmissions.org, it says the following about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010