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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... relinquishes control, fights to stay afoot, and feels an exhilaration of energy ... needed for this trial. (Would also love to participate) Kano: vasss i would

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• FAQ / Transfer

  How much does the transfer application cost?

  The transfer application costs $75. Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  example of this. My motivation on the project was pure: I need to make this ... 'm interested in: As much as I want to cut off the other things I’m interested in ... from Sublime Text, because I had the spare time I needed to set things up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  much identical to the PE requirement today. Needed are 8 points of ... : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and ... German". In particular, all undergraduates needed to present a thesis of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  does to walk, because trying to control every joint perfectly means that motors must exert extra energy to cancel out the legs' natural dynamics of ... decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  explain to you how much it was not. I could tell you that I enjoyed my ... major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion ... have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... that applying to college is a time where you need to focus on yourself ... make sure you're preserving some emotional energy to get through your own

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... left with some extra wood stain, varnish, and desire to build things. So ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... good along the way.  However, much of the time, students fail to connect ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  much it used to bother you when people would say that you’re young, but ... doesn’t care; I could shield you. There is so much more for you to learn ... to be something much greater than I have been… there remains within me

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  fine. To those familiar with Wii MarioKart, I once drew this analogy ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that ... to your flag is critical. You need to advocate for yourself and access

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... small, compared to the identities of the people around me, once I try to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  to improve. It is possible to overtrain your brain as much as you can ... need to be, a place I like being. It's trying to find the optimal balance ... history as contingency is too much for the human spirit to bear. And yet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  mind. Humans haven’t managed to figure out much about consciousness and ... ’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  type who does physics and is MIT ’17. He was never eligible to join NHS ... did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... you apply to college, but that filtered projection of an imperfect

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a ... ) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house party. i took my last final exam (6.006, intro to algorithms). i packed up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ... about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) blew my mind, how my school was teeming with energy and diversity, how I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  To understand this post, you need two important bits of context ... get funding to work on it…? Second, you need to understand Oniongate ... . —Robo-CJ What? wearing sweatpants. once you start, you never want to stop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  explore in college. Topics, groups, events… You need to explore, but once ... ’s no reason that you need to take 10 years to learn them! I hope that ... overwhelming. When you get to that point, you need the place that you can go to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of ... ? Coming into MIT, I had been told over and over: "you will need to find

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022