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• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... . I like to write a reflection every new year, and though I haven’t yet ... ago; I don’t think I’ll ever feel like I’m learning fast enough anymore

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  as a ghost who didn't know he was a ghost, an undercover robot working ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most ... M. '97, Ariel S. '04, E. Rosser '12, and Krue '14. This is a rerun of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... ." "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we ... that we can’t admit more of you right now. Many of you have a pizza our

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin ... help organize and put on all these events. I'm also newly a ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can't

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  . Apparently I had a lot of thoughts. Now I’m curating them into something that ... makes me want to stay. 8.02 could well be a good class. I don’t think I ... of pain, where I’m sure I learned something because I didn’t know much

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  spending time pining over a school that doesn’t appreciate you. And you owe ... most important point. While we’re going with a Revolutionary theme, I’m ... Fun fact: when George Washington was a young Virginian, his driving

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... thought of as having a sort of mystical aura that isn't fully encapsulated

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  likely learn your limits, if you haven’t already. Pun not intended, but I'm ... really a preview of what MIT will be like? I don’t think most pre ... everyone else. You won’t be alone. In a poll done in 2012, it was found that

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  that I'm not very good at Course 6, and as a result, not very good at ... final round on-site interview at a company in seattle, but they haven't ... sadly, being a student at MIT doesn't work like that. Here's an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  realizing that roaches didn’t have lungs. They were a set of thoracic muscles ... food or drink water, I would catch a bit of hair in my mouth. Even when I’m ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n ... because although he is a very smart kid, he didn't really know how to play ... Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  , completing your degree, landing a great job, etc. Now that I’m out on my own ... for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let ... : I don’t believe in the impact of my work, and I’m not challenged in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you ... that was meant for babies “I'm just not feeling this game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  context when it comes up. What is CMS? I don't have a snappy answer. Like ... is today, a work of art. But I'm not sure I'd call the 1981, single ... Thierry Groenstein once published [annotation note="I couldn't find a link

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  transfection I'm doing. He mentions that he doesn't have a particular plasmid ... , and I almost broke the autoclave. I'm not a huge fan of breaking ... see myself becoming a citizen of the world anytime soon -- Adam won't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  anticipated her interest in economics. I'm the same--I did not take a single ... major in Course 14. If you are a senior in high school, don't trust your ... forth. You tend to rely on academics as a sort-of pride because you haven't

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  intelligence. Example of a mental rotation test. I’m guessing that you ... correlation doesn’t imply causation, a controlled experiment can. As in, one can ... this kind of magical week where homework wasn’t a thing and we had half

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  ’ll write a long and melancholy caption about something I’m struggling with ... entered Kindergarten with. There isn’t a lot to do in a small town, so ... city that at the time I couldn’t point out on a map.  I am so guilty for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  of june has felt like a blur. i don’t feel like anything really ... about this a month and a half ago, but the gist is that i’m working in a ... . sometimes i forget i’m working in a course 9 lab, but in our urop meetings we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020