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• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most ... amulets. (Some scientists I know recently put up in their lab a statue of St

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  have so many things to work on, so I hope that I can find it in me to ... about how awesome my classes are and how excited I am to be in them :) ... coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  post.   Can I interest you in some background information for the ... even in the cool loner way, regardless of how I played it off. It took ... through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... being on campus, and my freshman year in general. I don't really have any coherent thoughts, yet. But in this moment, I feel a lot of resentment for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  then can be expressed in terms of tau: [latex]e^{i\tau} = 1[/latex ... In honor of blog post number [latex]6283 \approx 1000\tau[/latex], I ... ’[/latex]. So, we can add up each of these areas ([latex]\tau r'_i \, dr

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  ! On more than one occasion, I was the only person in the theatre during ... ." ArtBeat can feel slightly awkward for a poor college student, and I have ... Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep ... the window, and say something about the winter. That's how I knew that ... 't officially live on Conner 4 but well...as you can see from the list above, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  term, my body can't normally sleep more than 8.5 hours in a night even if ... most days - occasionally two meals and/or no dessert - but when I'm in ... ) - Reread lots of books that I haven't read in a long time - Attended my dad

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... regrade requests and responses like? I took two classes in Fall 2019 for ... lot of topics in math which I hadn't encountered before. I also made

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how much everything around me has. How do I begin? I found myself

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  , how'd it go?" "I just found out we did our entire economic analysis wrong. Can you come over and help?" Yeah, I can come over. We worked for ... other team member, Joe. I'm not sure why I was on the floor, or how I got

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... glory. I really can't say why this problem set is taking me so long. But ... writing this entry! Is this irony? I can never tell anymore. Status Report

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here ... games. What I’m interested in is fan cultures, Internet studies, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  Coryat scores and how I do in different categories. It’s helping me ... assignment systems. It’s still very much in the works, but I hope to talk more ... 2020, I continued a tradition started in 2019 where ESP members went to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... , social atmosphere, religious opportunities, etc. I also thought about how ... admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  (and can still find) in these pages. Now that I have seen so many more ... you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  . I could tell that they just did it so I could stop squaking about how ... time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I've already heard" in my mind. But it wasn't until this semester that I realized

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... firehose? Well, this semester I can definitely attest to that. My course load ... content of the class. But you should probably ask me how I feel about it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk ... very appealing. Maggie: I actually had a phase in high school where I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  're doing. So far, I've been gaining a wide overview of how BNSF runs their ... boss says "he's here this month while MIT is in hibernation"), but I don ... 's typically pretty loose, and as long as I put in a full day, my exact arrival

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007