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• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  a housewarming where everyone else was a college graduate and felt ... ."]without being physically present[/annotation] Got assigned a [annotation note ... when i come back, but anyway since i left for college they are not my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  , memorabilia, and snacks for college away in my mom’s Kia Rio as the dynamic duo ... welcome. I come from a single-parent household as a first generation college ... , Physics, Math, Communications, and even a P.E. class. I took Tsegball, and I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  astoundingly over the college months. In August, the Frosh could have sworn that ... hours on Physics problem solving, rewriting algebraic expressions and ... . Life in college is not how she imagined it. The Frosh had many dreams for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  ): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... Frebel from the Physics department. In 2007, Professor Frebel's team ... . I also went to my first college party this October! Though technically

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  . This is on purpose! College - MIT in particular - will overwhelm you ... directions; that’s what will happen when you get to college. Very few of us end ... ) - Anna Ho MIT Class of 2014 Department of Physics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  I decided that Physics would be my college major of choice. I had ... college, finishing up his degree in supply chain management, still

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  I often told my college roommate, who was from Adelaide: nice try. As ... has become the most highly acclaimed college quarterback since Peyton ... physically ill after I asked him to take a closer look. Like the end of Raiders

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  make my decision regarding which college I wanted to go to, I was pretty ... -notch hospitals as well as Harvard Med basically next-door. College Board breaks ... Sciences: 13% Biology: 11% Mathematics: 10% Physical Sciences: 10% Business

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  , now, strangely, that this is how I feel about physics. Through it all ... I see open doors and windows. In some sense college has changed me ... all this for Arecibo or if I just copied and pasted from some college

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  what? Going to two meetings of the National Honors Society or the Physics ... college. But, I’ve found it much more difficult to limit the number of ... years of college, I would go to these buffets (true story! Ask anyone who

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  Level IIC and Physics in SAT II, will that over-ride my bad SAT I ... . ------------------------ Karen wrote: "My college counselor... made my essay look like it came straight out of 'What Colleges Want to Hear.' (If that existed, she would

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  thousands of miles away, who doesnt know anyone who went to a big college ... college student woe, it was an issue of wanting to do work but not being ... choosing where to go to college. only months after studying in mit did i find

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  entering college, graduating college and entering “the real world,” this ... Embry-Riddle and Gonzaga and Tulane and [YourState] University and Greendale Community College (I’m just going to assume there’s a real one out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” ^ I'd give it an 8. Maybe ... , I met with Ed Bertschinger, the head of the physics department here ... have a fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” “[referring to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  .02 Physics II, which is taught in the generally despised TEAL (Technology ... , thesis work, job search, etc. Physics II worked out in the end, and, more ... College My favorite description of college is that it’s the special

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so ... , it seems like universities keep announcing plans at the last minute ... Year Plans I'm incredibly excited for my gap year. Coming into college, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  've wanted to do in college/MIT/Boston that I just haven't gotten around to ... stalking him visiting his office. But then the universe decided to throw me a ... -extensively blogged about this hallowed place. I can't even fully classify it as college

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  kidding, but going to college away from home requires more skills than just ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is ... best universities in my country. However, I want to study aerospace

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  ’ perceptions about letting their kids go far from the roost for college. It is a ... , for college. I have also known many students, for fear of leaving their community behind, who never applied to colleges more than 50 miles away from

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  infinite universe, but is it really possible? Can we use our finite lives to ... into nature to understand it, both its physical reality (in doing science

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025