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• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed ... should read more poetry for class. - Where did I leave my bike? In senior ... of two strings in cool patterns. I first got introduced to poi during

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... reactor startup targeting goals 7 years in the future, what can you deliver ... subsystem that you can deliver in 3 months?  Small wins build on each other

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  . in a previous post i wrote about how an mit.nano class made me feel ... obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not ... fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something ... ’ve realized in the past semester that I can be really hard on myself. Sometimes ... , and in the last few months, I feel like I’ve lost my way more than I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and ... involved I could be was how much time and effort I was willing to put in. 3 ... large scale, I learned how to design a rocket and run simulations in Ras

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  I don't know how familiar you are with "Wolfram," but I'll assume you ... the history of that country's GDP. It can tell you about scales in music ... can not do this. Wolfram Alpha is so much beyond Google in terms of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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