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  things work out following up on confusion

  

  to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and Engineering which allows us to combine CMS with Course 6, or to switch into ... math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense ... never left Kenya before coming to the States. I went to both primary ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... often have at this stage; please read through the FAQ to check if your ... applying Early Action. You do not need to complete the Part 2 (essays

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to ... resummarizing those. i encourage you to read their posts if you haven't already

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of ... hit me at Chipotle because I was too focused on the due date to pay attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... was going to be us after our exams were finished... After all, we ... forced ourselves to buckle down and do the work... When I finally walked

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  (Spring 2012): Introduction to Cosmology Splash (Fall 2012): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars Spark (Spring 2013): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars HSSP (Spring 2013

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  the invaders gestured for her to come out to the aisle. They crowded ... , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men ... around delivering them, to the mortification of the recipient, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 in 0.2 seconds, and then proceeds to receive many congratulations for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  walking back to our apartment from our friend Jess’s dinner party. Trees ... to grab our ankles without warning.  Naturally, Penny thought it would be a brilliant idea to make up some ghost stories to pass time. Here

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

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the ... the air. I didn't know how to get around campus, I didn't understand the secret numerical language everyone seemed to speak and I barely knew a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  commercial, like Livescribe had slipped me a $20 under the table to write an ... , thought it was important for prefrosh to know about it, and did a video ... talking about it now? That's old news, nobody wants to read the same stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  as to what the other ones were, you can easily find them! When applying to MIT, I knew I really, really had to write some damn good essays because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  human-written; they’re all machine-generated. I’m not sure if I want to be ... doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my ... to go from general physics to anything astronomy-applied is far to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend ... who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3 AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020