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  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  edits in October, the moment had finally come. I was done. But now was a ... played video games. I started drawing a bit. I played with my dog. Do not ... A year ago today, I was anxiously crouched over my laptop on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  that I am not a course 6 major, but I do know that this past month is a ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... wanted more in that moment than a continuous data stream documenting my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  that I read in middle school. The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... the heirs that the race is on to claim his treasure, and leaves behind a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  like TWINS! Me: Haha, yeah, we get that a lot. Random family friend: I ... On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  Last weekend was CES 2019, an annual convention in Las Vegas that I ... that's the whole point of a technology showcase but let me FEEL!) I'm a ... future employment. I've often thought that grad school is the only possible

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  blog. And the fact that I was thinking about how thinking about the ... 're actually functional in college (unlike in high school) 11.Why I'm actually a ... on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  announced that the hawks had returned. There were a few hundred people in the ... . :-) Reason #261 That I Would Live In EC If They'd Let Me Because they build ... how.) Facebook I see that many of the '10s have set up their MIT email

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  , [annotation note="I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in ... using a straight line, there’s only one way to do it. So we say that two ... involve some more stuff, but don’t worry about that for now."]in a vacuum

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar ... Cafe. I want to be that cool. Perhaps someday I will be. In the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  is to continue broadening that range with at least 4 albums/mixtapes a ... I brought together a group of about 50 movies that I watch over and ... the first show I've binge watched in a while and it was absolutely

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I ... , and immediately give up a score themselves. That's when I realized that ... period of time, is almost certainly insufficient to beat a good team in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Course 2A, which means that I am taking the core Mechanical Engineering ... Chemistry I)) This class focuses on experimental techniques that allow a ... , I'll provide a description =) Voila! That's my schedule, unless I add

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  what? Not everyone in the population is a drug dealer. So tell the story of where you come from." I'm still doing that a little bit. I still ... I'm going to try. *I actually took notes everywhere. I do that in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... yeah so i guess i'm joining the "what i'm doing this IAP" bandwagon—in ... class sounded cool, but i wasn’t that motivated to do it since i knew it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in ... harder, with no benefits in exchange; the intent is that you just get ... , i now take one and a half tablets. i discovered that after breaking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  attend but just want to see if they can get in). How do I know if I should ... is the right thing to do. We suggest that you start by respecting the intention of this process. There is a big difference between "I can't afford

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  -brainer. Now, let me warn you that, although this post is a summary, it is far ... unspectacular). I stayed with a gracious friend in the East End (with whom I ... still managed to recall how to navigate to the home of a friend whom I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps ... are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure ... say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  Coulomb's Law. Did you know that I'm probably one of the few people in human ... can also keep in mind that I will be repaying tuition loans for the next ... .03 (Vibrations and Waves) is a perfectly reasonable class until you realize that it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  , right before a Robotics session, my mentor said "so, Anna, I know that you're interested in neuroscience..." It turned out that he had a niece doing ... . Um. The street? A sleeping bag in the lab? I would be happy sleeping on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010