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

  

  the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I ... not see it pay off in the way you expect, or hope. It's very painful. And embarrassing. One of the worst parts is when people who believe in

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

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the ... made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a ... Catherine: we shall see who will roflstomp whom! Or, so scholars believe. In

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  in the head. :) 2. Chem fall, bio spring. This year, I went for Professor Lander's 7.012 class in the fall - being the awesome lecturer that ... very many people in the class (it was ~200, at a time when 3.091 had so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of ... simpler. I was in China visiting relatives all IAP. That would be my last

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  over the number of characters in my major. Most of you are familiar with ... involved in obscure programs) can identify their major in one number of one ... in Roman numerals, as far as I know....oh, the intricacies of MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  stuff in the back, and we drove home. I was home for a week, during which ... stuff back to Ohio. I stayed in Ohio for a week and a half, then my ... in MacGregor. Adam didn't have summer housing that year, so he and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  the optional essays are considered optional in that they are not ... factor in my deferral from EA, so yes, I think writing could and should be ... ; it just makes you competitive in the pool. Regarding the Writing test

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the ... the dungeon and fight the final boss in his airship. Then, the credits ... saw everyone else doing it, and then there was an email from Ceri in my

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  three main characters from the film Burning[/caption] In Lee Chang ... , where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... room. We had a fire alarm go off in[annotation note ... for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  -called important people in the show business pass out little men and women to those who they think did a good job at making movies and TV shows in the year ... 've watched in 2023. Movies Favorite Movie That I Saw for the First Time This

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  this "old" sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that's four years ago ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a ... ,[/annotation] a year ago in NYC at an "underground" cafe, which was sadly the last

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my ... excited to have the opportunity to create choreography in an academic ... in [annotation note="mit music and theater arts"]MTA musicals

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  bottom of a sigh, when you can feel some structure in your chest actively ... ’m disappointed in myself. It’s a familiar feeling. That sensation when you ... hours a day, day in, day out. She was passionate about school. She had

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... read an article about you in twenty years." That caught my ear, though

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection Last April, I declared my ... really wanted to major in. Too many cool things at this school... how could ... much in that position.  But it’s weird though. It’s not like I have just

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... creative individuals interested in an education centered on science and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  to handle, there's no shame in distracting yourself with things to do. Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what you'll hear in the next few hours. Your mental and emotional health are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  in my life right now, other than finals week and Celeste. Celeste is the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends ... climb walls, but she has limited stamina. Madeline can dash once in one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note="🍰"]workiversary[/annotation]as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020