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  On schools & context

  

  in their caseload. So our job is to look deeper -- what's really going ... Question #1, I'd love to get Parent Question #2 (and 3, 4... n). ... more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  need to make the most of my time here. MIT gives a great deal of ... 't know how to feelBut I wanna tryI don't know how to feelBut someday, I mightSomeday, I might ... Think I forgot how to be happySomething I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... dome -- you take the elevators in Lobby 10 up to the fifth floor, and then wind yourself through a bit of awkward hallway to get to the library

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  to get through. That's how we get values like 50% red, or 4% blue, or ... Disclaimer 1: It was very difficult to know how to pitch this. If it ... say that red "inverted" to become cyan. How your visual system

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life ... . I got to meet astronauts, hear Elon Musk speak live, and get expert ... fortunately well-positioned to get a picture. That's Michael Collins

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  , decompressed, and ready to get going again. And that's how you resurrect ... sessions too often when it got closer to "bedtime," and you can see just how dead you can get. But wait! What's that? IT'S IN ALL CAPS SO THEREFORE

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  walk, how I am or am not in the flow, to how it takes me time to relearn ... unspoken rules in a way that gets buy in from everyone?  How can any of this ... ice cream, like how I've seen others stand in front of food stalls

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  school student and want to go to MIT. Tell me how to get in.” I just write it off and never think about it again. Sorry, “How do I get in” is a ... amount of work you're capable of. “What SAT score do I need to get in

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  : From the way fat patients (like me) get denied appropriate care to how ... . In the fall of 2024, no longer able to produce thoroughly researched ... Chicagoland Gallery[/caption] Beading in particular is how I honor my Ukrainian

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  levels in WoW, FlyFF, Maplestory, or whatever other free to play MMORPG I ... song before I knew how to multiply. So my view of the United States was ... , the irony fell flat in my mind and to me it sounded like the perfect job

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  't know how I had time to bake brownies, but I fit in somehow! They were oh ... , yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of ... was accepted to The Institute. I do often like to speak in analogies

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  class (MAS.110) or for just getting "lost" in the many halls of the labs ... (MAS.S65). In the classs, grad students would be exposed to various ... , a beach. It could also vibrate in a pattern similar to a heartbeat to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  . --Yan In fact, MIT doesn't allow students to declare majors until after ... freshmen enough flexibility to explore their interests, decide to major in Physics, take the first 8.012 test, decide to major in Literature, pull an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  much time; at midnight, a blogger moratorium kicks in. To respect the ... little window to campus and show you how we here deal with stress. I didn ... way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact ... to different far away lands to do great things. In the moment, I didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  patience to watch the office in its entirety but was able to get through the ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... . this process was very helpful in the sense that it allowed me to finish

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  have preparing for quals in grad school -- your knowledge needs to be ... glory. I have to say that I also feel like I learned and retained more in ... long period of time to be properly encoded in long-term memory. I should

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  him explaining the profundity of anaphase in mitosis. I listened to ... note: if you’re ever in an exam and you don’t know the answer to a ... frantically tried to explain it to us in the remaining minutes of class (good

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  to happen: The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15 ... agencies. These will be directly uploaded into your file in plenty of time to ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  best place to study social science. 24.03 and 24.191 illustrate how ... largest Course 6 class: some fill 26-100 and have to be live-streamed in ... Programming in Python, first quarter of 6.00) and 6.0002 (Introduction to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017