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  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... know I'm not the only Jerseyan to say this: Newark is one of the worst ... order. I'm spending this summer working as a lifeguard at Runaway Rapids

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  Today, I'm in northern Virginia, assisting with the selection for the 2005 Research Science Institute (RSI). I arrived here late last evening ... tonight, I'm missing a lecture I was even more excited about with architect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking forward to watching "The Incredibles" tonight and not thinking about ... email, or available on the phone. I'm happy to report that this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  promising and in good hands. Yes, it's Saturday, and I'm working. Much of the ... working all the time, I'm going to get back to reading your folders. Have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  underwater basket weaving. I’m pretty similar to myself at graduation other ... between WOOOOO I’M DONE 🥳 and [annotation note="'It’s a terrible day for ... making a short list of things I missed about MIT and things I’m happy to be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  was lucky enough to get to go to Costco recently so I'm all stocked up ... from Trader Joe's, my favorite store to get snacks from. I'm not that ... find it really meditative and I like that I'm always making concrete

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  to say, I’d like to write more now that I’m transitioning from college to the next phase of my life. I’m excited to say that I’ll probably be ... ’t committed to a program yet, not that I’m unsure about the Ph.D. I don’t know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  , which is how you know I’m well and truly exhausted. Normally, playing and ... scenario in which I’m hanging off the edge of a cliff, tall enough that I wouldn’t be able to sustain the fall damage, and I’m scrambling, clambering

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area ... have multiple speculations why it's like this: Alabama (where I'm from ... after countless efforts at debugging[/caption] I’m back to my original

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  last year, i spent winter break in east campus, alone. this year, i'm ... with this year that make me yearn for something, and i'm not quite sure ... is the bedroom. i'm yearning for my bedroom back in east campus. i'm

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  was a really chill interview and I'm glad I didn't chicken out. About ... students for the fall. And with their permission, I'm really excited to talk ... in general. I really bonded with my kiddos and I'm really grateful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  , but I’m renting an apartment in Cambridge with two other lovely frosh ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] it's so pretty i could cry[/caption] Whenever I’m studying at the kitchen table and I look out at the river, I feel like I’m in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  write about it, what I'm doing and the conversations I've had, but ... feel, what I can do to fix it, and how I'm going to go about this summer ... how to learn I'm the kind of person that can't learn things on my own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Dome and feel this tightness in my chest because I'm still in awe that I'm ... me? how hard is MIT *really*? i dont know if i'm smart enough to go ... 't know if I should go because of this. I don't know if I'm smart enough for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  servers I'm a part of, I've realized that there are certain things about MIT ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  to keep up the first week. This semester, I'm taking 6.046, 6.810, 7 ... 't know.[/annotation] For my final year at MIT, I'm ready to do it smarter, not harder. I'm starting the year with a fresh slate, a new mindset, a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  't think i'm done with mit yet! >_____< Anyways, this is my class ... .....don't understand it. :) I mean, I don't think I'm bad at it but I am still having ... , trial and error, and time for your experimental animals to grow) I'm

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  don't get polar/cylindrical/spherical coordinates yet I'm so screwed omg ... : "But I'm probably going to stay for the second hour. Are you?" Me: "Ha ... think I'm ready... (Tuesday at 1) Another 18.022-er: You ready? Me

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in ... absolutely surrounded by prefrosh? Because I'm sitting at the Brown Yale MIT ... and one school with which I'm intimately familiar. I'll be live blogging

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  there, and I'm sure they've been mentioned on the blogs at some point ... like MIT sucks big time. I'm going to sunny Pasedena, California. CALTECH ... . Oh geez. I'm a big fan of Prisoner of Azkaban, but I think Order of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005