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  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  myself back into the mindset of applying: working on my resume, applying ... made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... over time. I said I wasn't ambitious, anymore, that I had let go of that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending ... as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends

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

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of ... framing of these issues, their ethical and policy implications, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  after experiencing two or three years of it. It means losing your ... you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of ... situations this theme of realizing that a past self had been naïvely idealistic

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  manufactured by Merck. The lady seemed eager for all of us to apply to Merck as ... , we fail at finding them though, so instead of gazing open-mouthed at elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  population. Which means that, in all of those other colleges you applied to ... walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... much of it or something and they were going to come back. At 4:58am, an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  , looking for a place to crank out 20 minutes' worth of a pset. I offered him ... old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is ... class. Mike Conti (the instructor, and author of this) gave us a talk on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  realm of matrix methods and learn how they’re applied to probability and ... ’t taken a math class since Linear Algebra in my junior year of high school ... because it’s a CI-H. I, uh, I needed to take one of those or I’d be put on a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  to Newbury, creating long notes lists of all the restaurants you want ... much time in [annotation note="Fifth floor of the Stratton Student Center ... here. Over the past 3 weeks, I’ve found myself doing all of these - but

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  because of the way it is. My Last Two Weeks in Spain, and Thoughts: Doing a study abroad is kind of like matchmaking. For one month (or ... remainder of your time there, you figure out when the Metro comes, you find

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that we're all apparently busy out of our heads with schoolwork and the fact that many of us actually do significant extracurricular stuff. Two things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  students from the University of Virginia, made the journey down to Agra to ... Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  University of Pretoria in South Africa. I was just there, so I hung out and ... when I don't post. Whoops. [I'm also too tired to do all of the footnotes ... Manufacturing II]. It's pretty neat! The goal of the class is to make FIFTY YOYOS

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  ! (Check out some photos and videos from Ebony Affair here on the Class of ... ="113607" image4="113606" /]   Once most of the group arrived, we took a walk ... performances from varying groups on campus that left half the lecture hall

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  have secured a full-time offer for 2024 in the specific type of role I ... Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for ... interviews, and . . . Well, you get the point. Sort of wish I had the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  activities and already-brimming corpus of memes has kept me sane in this quiet ... you are the type of person that would enjoy cute games that largely involve mindless daily chores and where much of the charm comes from social

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... interesting experience because you'll get a variety of different kinds of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... changed after months of milking goats and carefully calculating whether it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of ... creator of an appropriate dispostion--the article was indeed about ... possibility of incorporating a formic acid fuel cell into a handheld cell phone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  Did you know? Of all 7,238 MIT Admissions blog posts before this one ... intuitively. I usually just kind of wave my hands and say, “Uhh, it’s like when two things are different, but they’re actually the same.” So instead of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024