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  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  interested in INSPIRE, how should they proceed? A: To start, all you really ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ... are invited to MIT’s campus in April 2016 to meet expert judges and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  Well, it's pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8 ... , and so I'm sitting here in the cluster trying to figure out the ... to bottom. Now, if everybody did that every once in a while, wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  how I do things in order to keep advancing? I mean it got me here, but ... building to since I was 19-years-old and decided I wanted to work in communications. The problem is, I’m starting to think that getting to this point

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  to get there in one step. I felt so far behind and I was mad at myself ... that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this ... me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  college’” “Lol no way, why work super hard to get in there when I could just ... , Chinese, Klingon, and Gibberish, get a 3250 on my ACT and still not got in ... science programs and a history of sending students to big schools. In group

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  r e~ made me realize how accustomed to MIT campus i’d become in the ... to trial and error. we can turn in our psets barefoot and then binge ... lot of us tend to let ourselves be absorbed in our own lives. keeping up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  negotiation activity, in which each team had to build “satellites” out of Legos ... minutes. ELLs are two hours long, so we obviously needed to throw in some ... second round, discussions started to get more energetic. Interestingly, two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  information: Students can request an extension of the May 1 deadline in order to ... Admissions Office to request the extension, and be sure to also be in touch ... entry). We're looking forward to seeing you in the fall! If you've already

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  up to get my act together. Showered, dressed, brushed teeth - booked it ... from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT ... the MoMA: On the way in, Kandinsky tells the visitor what to think

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  friends because they don't live in my house and I barely get to see them ... how to be human again, but in the meantime, I will try my best.   ... 10am-ish Work out from 10:30-12 Get lunch from 12-1 Go to class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  that's supposed to teach you how to be happier and more productive. i was ... to back calls would be exhausting and in spite of this was pretty reluctant to initiate the last one since i was SO comfortably slumped in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  need a PhD, how often will I have to move, are there any jobs available ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few ... mother due to breast cancer in 2007. The day she died I promised her that I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take ... graduate school. The ability to read has long been linked in society’s mind ... learning disorders in general. We are beginning to find that dyslexia is not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to get into our (or anyone else ... or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  , we get to learn how to code a variety of image manipulations from ... to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and ... wrote Axes of Confusion. In the end, what let us decide to dedicate last

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... to a new domain? In group meetings for this salmon project we get even ... that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  deferred to regular action, and which students will be denied during this stage.In parallel, we are preparing to mail out decisions. All decisions ... encouraged by the quality of the deferred applicants that we will get to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few ... point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage ... from the horrible bleeding, only to get an infection that would last the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  wanted to work at Disney, but I didn’t how to get there or anyone in LA or ... they sold to make a living. They let us come in and see how they lived ... characters, like Walt Disney set up back in the thirties, to get invested in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in ... -make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... guide to getting groceries as an MIT student. I’ve been quietly

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016