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  In Prison Literally

  

  —although I ended up learning a lot, a valuable lot. It was for interaction, a ... backtracking out of the vicinity of the trains toward the parking lots, for ... .” I ran up to Tally, and a short while later, I was standing by a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was ... thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to love that MacIIsi for its games. Shufflepuck Cafe, Oregon Trail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  indecisive is that you should sign up for all the classes worthy of ... Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles ... temperature in Kelvin (on accident), took a partial derivative, tossed up a pan

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  For a gaspingly radiant millisecond after I received my acceptance ... the sentence you've all been waiting for: life is full of ... finished 8th grade), if not for the unhappy fact that I climbed 253 flights

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  for the SATs, I suggest Up Your Score. It's cute and funny, and while it ... -voiced office secretaries, just change into whatever time works for you or which ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  actually a vampire and doesn't show up on film, so I had to stand in for her ... lottery (for Avenue Q), gourmet French Fries, Taboo, Mitra and I got TO SEE THE WHALE! Nice weekend. More later. Okay, more. So, for words

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  ) when they come around. I’ve hesitated with writing up this post for a ... planned for my life to work out alright. But I’ve decided to write up this ...  interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  write an essay about how you dealt with a significant challenge for your application - or perhaps you're in the middle of writing yours for this season ... for Girls in various combinations, I totally bombed the last AMC I ever

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  best known for the transformation of the hyperbolic cosine function into ... '13ers for the ceaseless rounds of free food that will be slung at them ... association sponsored a luncheon today for the acceptees and their genetic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  people you know what they know about certain classes before you sign up for ... , about that. Basically, Jess Kim summed it up as well as I could, so there ... ? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... to hop between projects, ask for help or input from anyone else in the ... on and I already have significant responsibility and input. For me, who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  getting rejected by a lot of things. I've been dating the same person for a ... been like that. But recently, I decided to round up a few small ... textbooks. Somewhat for 24.915 (Acoustic Phonetics) and somewhat for my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an ... were released. For instance, because audiences were not yet exposed to ... .   We met up with some more Arts Scholars at the Five Horses Tavern

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here ... from my college experience? For example, I had zero doubts about being a ... be a great resource for quelling such fears!]  Now, Biology isn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  I’d never stayed up later than 4 am during school years. I had eleven ... , my friend and I crossed the Harvard Bridge for the first time. We had ... river accompanied our walk. For an hour, time slowed, and we were rulers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  , beginning this year we will be setting up an email address specifically for ... this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for ... %. What are the realities here? I know that while we plan for the worst

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you ... the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a ... was here for good. I loved every second of it, but I was also homesick

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  and tell me that I should have contacted him, because I only ended up ... is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... nation before you go there, especially in a language so well known for its

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  quantum tunneling) or just straight-up teleportation. You know, the cool ... mechanics is just a very elaborate inside joke that physicists made up a ... at point B sometimes”? Truly statements dreamed up by the utterly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  ...viscerally uncomfortable. Is time real?? I've already lived at my current house for longer ... were up at 3 am doing [insert mundane thing here]?" I wish I knew how ... beyond anything that could happen in current times; we were dancing for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020