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  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  accustomed to all sorts of odd situations in lab, but it took a while to get ... my time in Japan comes to an end I find myself wondering how I'm ever ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• 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 / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around ... night in Las Vegas, then… Pass through Valley of Fire on our way to ... … Pass through Las Vegas (again) on our way to… One day in Joshua Tree

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  software. Or getting pointers on how to commercialize research from someone ... variety of programs in place to help startup founders get the funding ... , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  somehow made it to Back Bay in time for us to get on the train home. Do ... excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  farewell to my fifth semester at MIT. It's kinda creepy how time seems to be ... sometimes this semester I wanted to throw my hands up and give up, but in my ... 'll be nice to return to flip flops and a tshirt as I bask in the warm

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005