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• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  one of few places he was interested in, although he admits to not expecting to get in. Other places he applied to include Caltech, which turned ... Sciences) class in which he gets to create multiple design sketches, capped

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  ’t need to worry about “getting it wrong” -- don’t stress ... . Got it. Ok, how do I fill this form out? The form has fields for you to ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  debate. He could relate; he used to be UAVP himself! In fact, he was Matt ... that you can decide for sure which one you want to live in - I know you ... about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... to main memory (system 1). a work in progress: almost finished ... question: "a year from now, how intact do you want your emotions to be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1 ... in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of ... though I will likely have very little to do with structural engineering in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  highest score achieved in each section. We do this in order to consider all ... . Standardized tests are required for every first-year application to MIT. However ... evaluated within an applicant's context. To view test score statistics from
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza ... - to determine what the best move is in any given scenario, since the ... to tell our bot to guess at what cards the other bots held based on how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  at her middle school to score high enough to get in to Stuyvesant, one ... hanging out in the projects, Cristen headed to the Hamilton Fish Park ... mother finally came home late at night, she would come in to her room and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  as males tend to do in an affectionate manner. (I tried to reciprocate ... party. Go on hacking tours. Hug a beaver. Especially since you'll get to ... to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  competition in getting into MIT and you should want to put your best foot ... about how the interview is an effort to get to know the student as an ... just to feel like he had to impress his interviewer.  In fact, I told him

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... of the week's events; read/watch this if you want to know more about pika.) In honor of this especially pika week, here is every pika food

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure ... [annotation note="Not to mention all the in-between cookies-and-cream patterns ... . I learned how to identify them based on their coos alone; for some

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Fahrenheit. I learned how to spell cumulonimbus, in preparation for my brother’s spelling test, and I learned how to cook things that are not cereal, in ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  needed to get back in shape. With the desire to end my career on a better ... . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the ... wasn't how I wanted to end my career. I took a long break away from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  -centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and ... created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... given to them by the district, and homework is often turned in through

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  wikiquote and other sources have been unable to locate it in any of her ... look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... means loving the world enough to be grateful for every moment i spend in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  off the road in thickets; you slid or stumbled to get from one to the ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... passers-by. Me: Hello! We're trying to get to Floyd; could you help direct

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... Championship Cup in picture, we needed to win West Point resoundingly. The ... before weigh-in at the tournament in order to make a certain weight class

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in ... may be used in future models. GEMs are able to detect particles using ... found most impressive was the ability to detect cosmic rays muons. In

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005