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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  after a movie to discuss it, even though the professor isn't there ... gave me a renewed sense of purpose, which was unexpected but something I'm ... audience and he said, "MIT is a place where strange people who don't fit in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  -year Afeefah didn't think possible. It's become a routine of going to bed ... constantly didn't check time. To a certain extent, I've become a prisoner to ... life isn't meant to be reduced to a list of things to do. Not Gonna Throw

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  own work. I know a lot of people who feel this way, but I don't think I'm ... happen much, though. I'm not really a fan of reading fiction as much as I ... I hadn't been working on my UROP. I say this in a sort of half

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... -Schwarz Inequality” is back in high school. I’m not a math wizard like Terence Tao, but ... possible way, or 5+ people congesting the hallway like a sinus infection

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  , and since I just got a thesis I don’t think I’m even a typical master ... don’t see any students I recognize, and sink a little lower in my seat ... . Apparently there is a dragon. I don’t remember what I was grading but I must

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!

  

  For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it ... . ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This just isn't it.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... and Engineering) is extremely flexible! So as opposed to in K-12, when ... .009 Fundamentals of Programming ES.1803 Differential Equations 21M.601 Drawing for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... not to inundate this post with a couple thousand extra words. I could never condense her into one story. So I won’t. Here, I also have my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  we make each node a k-size binary heap”). I’d already created a slide ... .045 (Automata, Computability and Complexity) p-set, until about four a.m., and ... terrifying themes have emerged. The first is projects; I’m taking two project

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  do it all over again. I don't know where I'm going, but I hope ... [embed]https://open.spotify.com/track/5MsZIaCYY6Tsdph0LiB0hE?si=a10ec ... just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  they have a really organized codebase. I won't expose any of their ... Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs backlogged right now and I'm trying to rush through them. Here's what my house

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  spending all that money for a place to live. I don't miss spending one hour ... animals in the field. Crazy. I don't think I will ever live in a place like ... was too boring. We want to be in a bigger place. There are times I don't

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  night. For the MIT people, Tony Stark a/k/a Ironman........ Just my ... Scholarship. And he comes from a place where college just isn't in the cards for ... home have, as a resident of the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation. "I don't

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  r s t on so far in our entire time here. Besides being a punch in the ... studying, I felt like I got a grasp of it. 6.042 is the second math class I’m ... . Okay, I think your wrap up wasn’t “wrap up-py” enough. Let’s try a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  stickers. I don't know what to put them on, but I'm hoping to get a new ... beach volleyball   7/24/23Great order number, I'm sure this isn't a ... ways a video, and you don't get to see still images all too often. Unless

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  , because for many of these institutions, they couldn't find a strong ... institution. Many found GPA to be a stronger correlator, but that wasn't the ... take the exams. That could be because they can't find a way to do so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  at MIT. Don’t ogle at the amenities. Talk! REX Life ≠ Real Life. A ... advice can also be rephrased as, “Don’t audition for an a capella group if ... . But wait, don’t rush. Don’t plunge into the ocean of choice immediately

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about ... to see in a movie theater, if you like this sort of movie. It wasn't as ... Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  as an Institute Lab? Or maybe a HASS-H that fits your schedule, doesn't have a final, and isn't a CI-H? No problem. Firehose is most useful for ... hate apps, so I don't use it a ton, but I honestly think it's really well

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . Call it a curse, but I'm actually a very stubborn person at times ... learning about momentum transfer (a.k.a. "how rockets work") as one of the ... . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007