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  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  really fit in at MIT? I attended CPW hoping to find the answer to this ... tell me it's going to be okay. In an email sent out to the current MIT ... those of you in the process of applying to MIT: come to campus, meet the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  didn't even get in on the first try. I had to wait until COVID-19 expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... , I don't want to lose that motivation that got me there in the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  solar heating. This is the definitely the class to take if you want to ... , and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but ... took in the Fall of 2007 about Development. It's also known as D-Lab I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... took it easy with the rats. In essence, we're training them to run ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  ) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... Education (INIE) program. Getting to work in MIT-NRL is an amazing opportunity and Jugal says that his most memorable experience was "going to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  to say. And it's still in the running for actually becoming my major. The truth is that I never REALLY knew what I wanted to major in. I knew ... idea in his head that I'm going to take the Physics II test (based on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies are still in the mail, but we're excited about the Class so far! I ... , now is a good time to be in touch, whether by email, phone, or whatever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the semester, taking trips to dim sum or hot pot, eating cake in the lounge ... , someone gets up and talks about how much that senior means to the group

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk ... anyone in my life for granted. Similarly, my brain is swimming in all the ... other. In Spain, my life got the chance to intersect with people I never

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all ... Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  the meat of this post. MIT is the greatest place I know to study any ... . The low student-to-faculty ratio is definitely something you should take ... . The story is inspired by Alice in Wonderland, and the style by the book

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  distance. In that case, the path to infinity is simply now. What do you see ... 2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a finite time horizon. Infinite games where the goal is to keep

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  typing in the right answers. This is honestly the most tediously formatted ... You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the ... trying to get p-set in, and overall, starting off the day really late, and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  say is pretty well-summarized around the first minute of this video: To ... a student-athlete in a place where the “student” part is so heavily emphasized? There’s a lot of ways to answer that, but I think the most

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  that they could be published. In the spring, I applied to another array ... perfectly clear in my head that I both wanted and needed to go back to the ... want to go to graduate school and become an astronomer. This is the hard

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  -games-I’ve-played-are-Frogger-and-Oregon-Trail n00b. As in, the-only-programming-experience-I-have-is-using-the ... by what MIT/MIT students appear to be. It’s nice here. Most of the time ... school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  is usually a language requirement to the MISTI programs and the two ... decided to concentrate in Chinese , MISTI-China was the logical follow-up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  became one of my favorites. I started to do really well in the class ... made me want to MIT in the first place. This past year, I've definitely ... what they tell you to. Labs in the past have been things like coding nth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  actually trying to reach me. The good thing is every so often one of those ... very much in the spirit of MIT. Grants like this and this are extremely ... ’s time to share the wealth, so I’m here to lay out for you all the tips and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was ... TO GO TO HERSHEYPARK! Riding in the front seat of Storm Runner at 11 AM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007