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  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  Subject Tests in Math and Science. Q: Should I rush report my scores to get ... sent to MIT, and are worried they will not get here in time, we will ... .Please be patient when trying to get in touch with them, as it may take them

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  .0001 (Intro to Computer Science Programming in Python) — real talk. aside from ... —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly ... THICC 5/5 cannot be described in words 😩 (lol MIT is not a bad place to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I often don’t, choosing to spend another hour or two in bed. I couldn ... , all around us. On New Year’s, another friend and I went to get lunch ... places that were open, before deciding to walk back and get Saloniki. As we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  weeks later decided the next step in the beach theme would be to paint a ... into the room at all. So this year I was determined to get the beach ... loft. This idea came to me in a flash of brilliance, as we were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  . Every day, I am grateful that I get to spend time around them and spend ... only do you move on to campus earlier and get more time to get acquainted ... day in my life before, I was really nervous to actually start. The week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  hide no longer–I was in it for good, and I wasn’t going to stop. And that ... 's all of the bags I have... for now. But I'm always trying to get that bag ... of a place or event I've been to. I think it's nice how they come with

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through ... , and I’ll probably try to continue playing chess once in a while, too ... temporary. I’m almost certainly not going to put in the hours required to be

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... South Street Diner, which, according to both Ruth and the How to GAMIT is ... in and said, in the most innocent voice, "Hi, yeah...we want to go to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  and ideas bouncing around in my mind but with no idea how to transfer ... scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It’s easy to lose track of how much time has passed when you have so many

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  and tweaking components to get everything to work like it does in the ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... redesigning the wrist joints that allow it to turn in place, and then we'll be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  're working on. At these presentations, you get the chance to hear directly from ... to a lot of running around campus and scrambling to turn in psets on ... career fair? How on earth did I manage to find something to do last summer

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  I possibly can. It felt like a maze that was impossible to get lost in ... to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle, analyzed samples of roman concrete, learned how to mosaic and fresco, visited

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  get spoiled for me in the comments. [Important sidenote: I watch almost ... absolutely hate it when something gets spoiled for me (similar to most people ... lot of TV. So, in the spirit of Advent calendars*, I'm going to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  hard to figure out, use it in these three ways," and we didn't get a lot ... getting to know more people -- not just my podmates, who are lovely, but ... would say to one another in a different world. I'm hungry for the real

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  attend college, and did not accompany me to campus. In fact, the first time ... number one question I get from students is some version of: “How did I get in?” Many of our students feel this impostor syndrome prospectively to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... enough to survive out in the wild. Thankfully was able to enter the ... general rituals of the clan in 5W. I am to expect four-legged beasts roaming

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone ... . Eventually, this lead me to MIT. In all these ways, that summer program opened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  constructed card games, it's far more difficult to get the cards you want in ... are an adventurer ascending a spire in order to slay it. Your cards ... the importance of a program's logistics. Back in high school, I used to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and ... 'm referencing this interview with Kanye West by BigBoyTV. In response to Big Boy ... and whether that's in jest or in seriousness is really hard to tell

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to ... application after application to get rejection after rejection, and the game i ... die. i'm literally writing this in public trying my best not to cry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021