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• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... indication of how well you did. I want to stress again that this is just a ... helps if you have things in mind to talk about and can elaborate on your

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  program I am applying to is called “Cities in the 21st Century”, which looks ... that affect cities. I had always expected to study abroad in college ... of immersion experience that I got in the Czech Republic, so I was

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... where we are now. And you just made it 15 minutes, how bad can 7.5 be?" So

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... "lightening the load" and how you can choose to overexert yourself but don ... .100A has been very helpful (I can actually do psets), and 9.00 is

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  history of being a feared team in the NEWMAC. I’m sure the friends and ... afraid of MIT? Those nerds? There’s no way they can play sports!” And I bet ... it.  I learned that MIT was a jock school by living in it. I saw my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  in the near future.   but i digress.   i had a strange senior year experience—i graduated high school a semester early (in January ... time to tag people in memes anymore??? or to even look at memes??? i felt

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... . Knowing that I needed to get in touch with someone named "Ricky" (I didn ... information faster than you can provide it? I tried to brainstorm some resources

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  up with M I T. Seems like no one can truly escape the firehose, no matter how hard one tries. I am, however, grateful for some breathing room ... breaks, where I can catch up on my life, focus on myself, take a moment to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR ... new development. It really started back in October, when I attempted to ... favorite videos/movies ever. I do not kid you when I say the Cat in the Hat

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  I spent too much time in lab and missed dining hall hours and was v ... rewatching Taare Zameen Par with friends The last night I spent on campus in ... and Bova in North End) Go on a bike ride through Boston (i recommend

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  the beautiful is one I can't pass on. [caption id="attachment_100807 ... next many years in the US!" "WOW GUYS you can see it with your bare eyes ... This past Friday evening, I wished I didn't want to see the aurora

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... and depth in a single field. As I mentioned in my blog post about the ... concentration, I have seen just tremendous, insatiable intellectual hunger in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  recommendations in the Pop collection, and we've got 13,000 CDs, so I can't be ... this so I can talk about the MATCH school. It's one of the many Community ... do this - I teach rising sophomores in writing. Let me tell you, for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  homework I could have finished in that hour, but I quickly realize how much ... Cavity” to show me how much more I need to learn and make me okay with that prospect. “Uuuuuuuuggghhhh!” I grunt out in frustration – I think of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  extra questions on the spot, which we also delved in to. I’ve never ... be in a space where I could see my impressions of my peers’ work ... examining the flaws and strengths in each others’ writing. I’ve been in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  been crammed full like my carry-on. In fact, I just returned from a trip ... after finishing my last final, I was landing in Portland and being greeted ... some rocks to bang on the bigger logs like a chimp in a lab until I made

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of ... ?" Slightly more. "How many can't decide?" A whole lot. If you're wondering I ... simpler. I was in China visiting relatives all IAP. That would be my last

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -recently-visited-by-Quentin-McArthur emailed me a laundry list of excellent questions that I could answer in less ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  i. basketball everything in this section is only approximately ... defense in the vicinity of the basket, the offense has an advantage and can ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45nPGnp10iE   in this play, it might look like the defender is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  ’s work! I asked several professors about openings in their labs, mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the ... a week in Niagara Falls. I enjoy spending time with my sisters, my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007