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  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  . And just as surreal as it was to hold my MIT ID card in hand, staring ... reminded me that being happy and healthy is the most important thing in life ... professors, thank you for seeing the potential I sometimes didn't see in myself

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  healed me. Looping together yarn in that simple way, hands guided by forces unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as ... pixelated designs on my laptop to recreate in fabric. I couldn't stop. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  year's application cycle. In simple terms, here's what this means for ... -year applicants applying in fall 2021, or transfer applicants applying in either ... as those listed in the next bullet point.']help us more accurately

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on ... choices made for this building. The color scheme in particular annoys me, as ... never intended to live in a meal plan dorm. I'm kind of picky about my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  into people in the hallways or dancing with 30+ other people in the floor ... beyond anything that could happen in current times; we were dancing for hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and looking back makes me feel like i'm in another universe right now. i mean ... week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... mathematics. What are the chances that at some point in the last five years somebody in the UK dreamt that a loved one had died, only for that loved one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that I have ... time on Admissions :)  _________ When I was in grade school, I distinctly ... time, I didn’t really know what it meant to have a job in robotics. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  As you’ve probably already read in Chris’ post, the blogger application is now live and ready for all your submissions. At some point in the ... [/annotation] who work for the Admissions Office. I applied around this time in 2015

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  It's an ordinary Thursday! I'm living at an apartment in Cambridge ... circadian rhythm into obedience. 9:15 AM I feel up all the avocados in my ... smoothie and put cacao nibs, which are essentially chocolate chips in their

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I ... . This class has been through a lot. In 2016, many of us voted in our first

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  classes haven’t gotten in the correct rhythm yet. I couldn’t find a ... few days in contrast to how much free time I had over IAP. I feel like I ... schedule’s less packed as the semester goes on. The rhythm will settle in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area ... we visited high schools together in the suburbs of Boston, and he very

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  . Throughout my entire time in high school, I used to complain to my math teacher ... theorems. Well, in the most MIT fashion, I can defiently say that I got more ... due to that class in particular. Going into 18.100, I saw the material

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  Life has drastically changed in the past few months. You’re in a ... life-changing. You started in one place and will end up in another. You ... open yourself up, in essay after essay, decisions become really REALLY

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  begun working towards my degree has settled in. This semester, I took 54 ... field is just crazy. Look them up! I never had a true interest in biology ... greetings to people in my class in probably twenty-five languages. I think the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  . Completing all the sidequests means that you’ve 100%ed the game - in other ... campus one single time, I consistently have no idea what building I’m in. The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  -of-knowing. but this class of people is, i suppose, special in that we entered mit at roughly the same time and grew in some sense of togetherness, and ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the

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

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  because that aesthetic was chic in 1970 when MacG was built. It consists of nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017