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• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  'd like to talk about exactly the opposite - deciding to live in the COVID ... trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  has nothing to do with MIT, as most of the things in which I'm involved ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... commentary is perhaps more relevant to those readers who have followed on the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  ’s Cafe- Conveniently located right next to the Koch Building in Kendall ... the Indian in me appreciates being able to eat with my hands hehe El ... makes the best and most authentic desi food in Boston. The biryani slaps

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know ... opportunities, expose you to the realities of living in a house that requires ... in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time ... to be clogging our in-boxes. We located said wifi connection in the ... Harvard Admissions Institute. The first day of NACAC is mostly social. Some

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  dust gathers in the corners. The equipment is shaky and old, and there ... .  I’ve come to love weightlifting, for the most basic reasons: the ... I met while backpacking in Italy showed me how to use the kettle bell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most ... to be mostly neutral in the end. Maybe even slightly negative. Honestly ... in the Green Building. I insisted to my boyfriend that I wanted to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50% participation in donating. Sadly, I don't think our theme is as incredibly awesome ... the grading scale in many of my classes. Not much Ivy -style grade

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  they call UC, much like how MIT's is nicknamed the Stud. Thanks to ... tried to find the room the graders were supposed to be in. CMU's campus is ... , you have to use their language, right?" The joke is that Harvard calls

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  there is a certain charm to that. The restaurants in Boston are awesome ... professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all ... there is a giant music free-for-all. Its definitely one of the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e ... much that it's starting to get cliche, but I love the people here! I ... As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a ... ??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you ... is Peter Reddien, seriously the boy-wonder of Course 7 (biology

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  grilled shrimp. In case this is of interest to anyone here, Kip had the ... that I sent out to some of the most distinguished American ... , is as close to the asymptote of world famousness as any theoretical

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  one in. Finally, I know that another deadline is about to pass for some ... soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... weaved through the horde of students in the Infinite to get to lobby 10

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  , especially at my level, is probably not a realistic goal to set in the first ... ’t work? Am I just bad at doing research? In some ways, the answer to that ... mechanics, and I didn’t spend as much time in the lab as I should have because

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  means to them. All the entries on these blogs are good. But time is ... out a little bit in the application process, as well as to provide a ... Problems... Admissions Is Not One" 52 things not to do. Chris: Notes on the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart ... : the workplace is no MIT. This past summer, I found myself struggling to ... good. I never know when to shut up, and I'm the loudest in the room half

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022