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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... worse. In 1st grade, I read this story called The Tortoise and the Hare ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all ... responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... -shopping, as was Melis's list. If you're interested in finding out what you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  could, in principle, buy a rack, but the pandemic price-gouging was likely ... pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in ... in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in AP classes and participated in extracurriculars but still didn't know ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  International Honors Program: Cities in the 21st Century. It is a comparative ... the campus surrounding 77 Mass Ave, but instead immersed in the ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011 ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio ... ever exchanged with Spencer, the day after we admitted him in March of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  , since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for your computer, once you buy your computer: A padded laptop bag with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  second or third or fourth petri plate with different antibiotics or food in ... very good at replica plating. The first time I replica plated, in 7 ... and way cooler, is this IAP in rifle. Rifle is one of three firearms

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect ... there in 4 hours. There's no excuse. I made so many of these trips these last four years <333 11. Take a class during IAP - yup, in Spain too

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since ... given study space: other factors that they wrote in include: enough ... this in mind, let's dive into my definitely not comprehensive list of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... why we shouldn't believe in astrology (anyone in the EAPS Department ... reading." Thus, I've decided to share my secret talent with you all in the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... undergradate and current MIT graduate student, wrote in the Tech last month, the ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not in the Chinese-language post, and additionally, some things in the ... , we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5 ... ) 12.400: Our Space Odyssey (1) 18.504: Seminar in Logic (1) 18 ... lot of the reasons mentioned the content of the class in different ways

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020