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  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  crisis. "I don't have a choice in this; I can't seriously pursue a career ... major challenges? How confident are I about what I can do with my college ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  had a doubt how a student can be accepted for both mit and caltech in EA ... AP's are not the only way in which to challenge oneself. (I can ... even looked at? What ever happened to going the extra little bit? I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  sharing a story that I felt was still being written. I can’t just pick up ... how they think I’ve changed over the last year and a half. I think I ... . I lived on a Christmas tree farm in Lawrenceville, NJ! For a few

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  job site in Needham, where I catch one of three trains between the hours ... accompanying sights beckon my eyes to rest. Each day that I work in Cambridge ... like your job (as I do), it can feel like an inconvenient stretch of time

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  platforms: How can we present content in the most intriguing way? How do we ... automatically score them? How can we organize and visualize data in a way that ... for students in on-campus courses (and you can follow along with MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  can tell these aren't my photos because of how awesome they look. Full ... 've met a few people you can talk to, see how well you can get to know them. In one notable example, I started to click with my CPW host, who hails

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I ... was oddly invigorating and I don't really know how else to describe it ... I'll get use to it in the future, but it's pretty weird. I'll keep

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  I like being around people who can creatively keep themselves entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible ... a positive feedback loop that generates entertainment. While I don

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  more and more about my own freshman year - in particular, the choices I ... other Greek men, I have a great deal of pride in not only my own ... and the same triumphs - both of which can be found in abundance at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  . Q: How do I schedule an interview? A: You can find your interviewer ... application). Q: How can I view my MyMIT tracking page? A: Once you submit ... in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  irresponsible spending by writing a blog. i was in new york over the past few ... ’t awful, but considering how much all of my friends raved about this city i ... .  for context, i deactivated my accounts sometime in the fall semester

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at ... of Science off in the distance. When I first got this blog, and was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  mentally envision how I would paint everything currently in my line of sight ... yesterday afternoon, as I thumbed a hole in the last of my familiar, paint ... tubes and I want to do something with them, but I can’t. It now feels less

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow ... it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this ... ! (Come on, how unprepared can you get?) It turns out that three of us

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the ... Math website: CrowdMath is an open project that gives all high school students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  discussing how it was "sorta easy". I failed. Badly. Geez, I can't seem to ... Wednesday, I squeezed in some final study time from 10am to 12:30pm before ... about how to solve them and recalling past problems to guide me. I wrote

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  have some experience in. I know my hair, so I can experiment with it. I ... more experience to judge my looks and tell me what I can improve in my ... people, or really any situation where I can’t blend into the crowd.  Hair

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  MIT. How does that feel." Now, in my mind I know that it was a long time ... ." I noticed that it had to be in by February 9 or I would suffer a $40 fine, so I figured there'd be no harm in doing it tonight. A few moments

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to ... well-paced, so I didn’t struggle too much. I can’t wait to leave the ... credit limit next fall.   I had a bit of a rocky start in the class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020