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  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  ="118122" image2="118121" /]   6. carson beach last year, my high school ... wanted to go to the beach some time in august, but our plans got postponed ... to the beach, albeit a boston beach three thousand miles away from my

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  easily span an entire semester at other universities without the ... possible paths through the system are equally long), the photon will always ...  not equally long, the probability of photons exiting at (e) varies with the path

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  MIT felt like a long shot in general. On the day of decisions, I woke up ... waking up as decisions are being released. Saturday morning. It wasn't long ... eternity. It still does right now. So the prospect of this long wait was what

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  .13 (Organic Chemistry II) and Wednesday seemed a long ways off. I had time, right? Perhaps it was the universe trying to teach me a lesson about ... . Last Thursday night, I was at the end of a long road, my windshield

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  the 1950s; the largest of the silver tubes is 32 feet long (THIRTY TWO FEET LONG. THIRTY TWO!) and the shortest ones are six inches long. It ... 't spend long in England, and moved right along to Italy. She played two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  has ever been on that team - is constantly being recognized, long after ... and THIS IS THE UNIVERSE TELLING ME NOT TO BE A PHYSICIST and WHY DO I ... honestly will not turn out to make that big of a difference in the long run

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... appears EXACTLY once a second, and we've marked up the paper into second-long ... at exactly the same place in every second-long data slice: it doesn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... a long "research paper" at the end of the semester, I have been in lab ... dislike research because I didn't like how all the trials take so long and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  attending university and maybe graduate school as well. I would like to major ... out-of-state – your future can manifest in so many varied, beautiful

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  students who had just moved states, we were also the "new kids" trying to fit ... for a class in 6th grade"].[/annotation] The universe was pointing us in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  bizarre half-conscious state. Events unfolded at about ten times normal ... , metal-poor stars are usually the oldest stars in the universe. However, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  university. All hope is lost for the latter if you can't do the former. Of ... shouldn't be wielding a drill in my state", the thought "it's weird to see

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  . Michael wrote, "What happens if I register without stating someone whom I ... full year of university before entering MIT as a transfer. I don't know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  a good application for a dozen or so carefully selected universities ... university has their own college admission test that you have to take ... i decided between mit and another university, which [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  0.57 miles long, cost 500 million euros, and took six years to build ... -bridge, this connection is dangerous, long, and unreliable. Some experts

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1000"] Joseph Hooker, Massachusetts State House (and the Sacred Cod ... , turkeys[/caption] A few months back, my friend at Michigan State asked me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  [annotation note="For example, AP/IB/AICE exams in the United States, or ... scores; as stated above, we encourage students to send scores if they have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of ... now doesn’t mean I can’t learn. I don’t want to go back to the state I

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

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  assessment.” What it boils down to is an analysis on the current state of ... . The phenomenon is called Campbell’s Law, and it states that the more any

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  . You don't choose to have a disability. However, there are certain states ... be the same as they are in the United States. What you experience in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016