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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Blog / Extracurriculars
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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
