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  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  how much I enjoyed being in the makerspace, making physical objects that ... ! I am currently majoring in [annotation note="Computation & ... ; cognitive science. (I love telling people that 'i major in 6-9' for shits and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  again. Definitely in the top three of things I’ve read all semester ... Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... moment when I realized she would not speak, that she would sit there and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don ... awarded to an MIT professor just a few days after I learned how quantum dots ... ! OLED Displays How can plastic become conductive? In materials science

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  voices in my head always used to be questioning, that I would go back and ... , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a while, and in the sense that I haven't really been engaging in self

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  atomic physicist. In fact, I definitely would have tried to angle myself ... wade in. It’s the coldest water I’ve ever swum in, but it’s not as bad as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... blog about, so here I am. But switching website designs also means ... time I tried to build something (an ill-fated arch of cardboard boxes in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  student center to battle it out for a shot at glory! So how much would you ... said. But they would've said it if I'd asked. Totally. ... the people I polled about CPW, the one event they said meant more than

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

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I ... be offering their lessons. I actually became intrigued in ballroom ... started. They will be every Wednesday night in Burton Conner. I might check

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  life got turned upside down", I figured I might join in with the chaos ... Entertainment movies I made a Discord server to keep in touch with my friends. We ... &2 apps i've been using a lot Discord - literally would not be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  nuts, would I get in or not, if I did which would I pick, and if I didn ... In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... we would actually find out. I'm told that all the letters were mailed

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  make the choice to go to MIT again, would you? I'm a little embarrassed ... , in some form or another. I live in French House, which has its own system. We cook dinner in teams of four, which means that I cook once a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  and I was in the passenger seat trying my best to keep up with how OP ... constraints of the class that would have been helpful to the world in times like ... type of creativity that I enjoy expressing but rarely get to in highly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  would like to work on and become masters in their area. If looking at ... competition's website or the MIT team's website. I thought I'd jot down a ... the FSAE team members: - I had the chance to sit in this year's FSAE car

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  , but I'm not sure how much is too much. Would submitting the first three chapters be over-doing it? Also, can I send it in on CD, or would you rather ... wondering if it would be acceptable to send in a DVD of a performance?" I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  've experienced in college. I would like to give back somehow, but I'm not really ... dream. And sometimes, even in spite of the photos, I’ll still wonder if it ... , they seem to appear in flashes way more frequent than I was used to. And

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  France, and ended up in Spain. Because I was asleep, I don’t remember much ... parking, which I had never seen in a city layout before. It felt like those ... silly getting that cuisine while in Europe, but I really wanted it and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade ... friends who would totally enjoy science bowl. I rounded up a handful of my ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020