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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... teach the incoming Medlinks class about how to Medlink and share my horror ... be nice to get a break from the institute for a little while. I Wrote

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  person In other words, MIT wants to see from your application that you ... personality and are relevant to the question. Think about if and how the ... how you group words. There’s a certain power in a sentence that is more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  not finishing it. I had nothing. When I went to give my presentation in ... post) to UROP with the MIT Game Lab. Hopefully I get it, but we'll see ... on the next one. Happens all the time. I haven't figured out how to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who participates in conversations the most? How many words did each character say ... show. Sure, it's a sitcom, and it's in the nature of a sitcom to rely

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It ... getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just ... location when I was still going to school in Taiwan). Also, I'm trying

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far ... audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it, though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center ... :Montreal (It's an inside joke, but we'll get to that) So the day we ... was nervous about how this was going to compare to the "mana

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  talked at the table. we talked about how to build community and care for our neighbors. we talked about how to be good allies to our siblings ... how to lift up our siblings of color. please, please read vincent and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... that I admitted to the Class of 2006. In the fall of 2001 - Thanksgiving weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat ... after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how ... in May, giving me something tangible to celebrate two years at the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The second-best picture we took in Paris This entry is dedicated to Regis Philbin.

  

  architecture in 1940, designed the glass pyramids in front of the Louvre. "Agh, I'm so tired." "Guys! We can get a great picture with the pyramid. Get in ... to step on your camera if you leave it there." "Okay, I'll put it on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  in one night, but intentionally working to get caught up and do well in ... can focus my time to get stuff done before two in the morning.  My ... don’t have to get 100% on every single assignment you’ve ever done in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... remember starting to giggle - and then my eyes were closed and I was in a ... shouldn't exist, but it doesn't) and used to be in a rock band. I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  time constraint. It had to tie in somehow to the class theme for the ... team demonstrated how to strap the boots onto a horse—which of course ... . Caregivers can hand Ollie to their loved ones, either in everyday situations or

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  . When humans are hungry, they need food in order to get back to being in ... expression similar to how it’s evaluated in the TRAILING state.   STATE 7 ... talk about how we are appending to the numbers. In case fk (or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  , I just got out of class and ran home to get my laptop. So nothing ... studying in France. We've been trying to chat all week, but the 6 hour time ... all time. Go read his archives. Seriously. Friday, 16:55 In response to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  tell which one was winning over me. I’m not afraid, I said to him in our ... to get it out there, to grasp at a solution for anything I could ... like the hosts of a party trying to get people out at 3am: You don’t have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the ... , I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way ... email calling for cover letters to apply for the job. This is how MISTI

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school ... wrote How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs, it'd get an entry ... – How to Save a Life and Reese Lansangan – No Snow, both mentioned 2 times

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  will be ecstatic to get their decision; many more will be disappointed ... 's gonna be happy to be here or not. Their job is in some ways to look out ... know how MIT is. You might think to yourself "oh but I know so much about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010