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• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  culturally connected to the ‘tute. From the long days in committee that I ... am making is this: accepted or not, you all have the ability to perform ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that ... rural area of Somalia, the first in his family to attend school, just as ... floor competed over who served the most ice cream. Today, in a minute, we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east ... East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at ... own special culture - and ours is especially fantastic. Not only do the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  labs breaking ground in topics I was excited to work on in most of the ... a better engineer. The question, then, is how much of this I want to ... fantastic, the sort of dream you never dare to dream. The only question is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  first time in years. I spent most of the spring just doing nothing: taking ... ’s all just because of P/NR? How will I be in the spring, when I have to ... right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  major path that is most common in the department, and that I am also doing ... -majoring is out of the question.   With all that in mind, I went into ... the difference in the sheer number of classes I would need to take to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  students throw their hat in the ring because they have nothing to lose! Students can apply to up to three externships in the middle of Fall semester ... contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  and try to work together to make everything a little better in the field ... pales in comparison to tasting it right off the production line - trust me ... .S. In response to Greg's comment about the server taking forever to post

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... ;     The memorial unveiled today is, however, the most ... shot in the line of duty. Carved into the south-facing wall is an epitaph

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  punchline is that to call myself gratuitously lucky would be understating the ... understanding from the fabric of the universe is like pretending to be a salmon ... One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  call an Uber to get to the bus station, and get stuck in traffic. Rush hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... comfortable ride to Hartford. I start looking through the 18.02 pset that is due

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  my IAP with my head in the books, trying to absorb as much information ... sponsors the class, but it’s open to anyone in the MIT community and is ... in the center of the field. My team is all girls, so we're going to get

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the changes and preview the short answer prompts, a much larger group is likely ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... although MIT is indubitably hard, much of the difficulty is self ... in the differential equation, the system that is my life, and I am oh

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  's OK, because i didn't have too much to do! plus, by this point in the ... this image is small, if you look in the bottom left corner you'll see a ... order to write down the poem on the paper i keep by my bed. here it is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  in the next month, because once Thanksgiving hits, things start to get ... . Neighbours. He had retired to the town next to mine. I don't remember much from ... is to be yourself. Treat the interview as a conversation, and as an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  projects too--the Design/Build/Fly team is working towards competition day in ... can learn it, and that the best way to learn it is to do it without ... it to make a program that did things on the Internet. In fact, I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  m hurdles) up to the most recent Olympics in 2004 (Steve Tucker '91 ... achievements in the academic arena as much as achievements in the sporting arena? ... world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  maintain a balance between the two groups. The best way to get to know us is really to come and talk to us in person, as iHouse is just too diverse and ... Festival! Although this is only one small entry in the extensive CPW listing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  logic, math and probability inherent in the game. "Most people who write ... will get made over by the Fab Five as part of their new season in Las ... episode is being advertised with the tag line, "Turn a Poker Dud Into a Five

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006