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• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  should I go in the quirky direction? unclear but you would not believe ... How I got all 5s on my AP exams without even trying What question ... question singular bold of you to assume I would ever go on a campus tour

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  major. I had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted to approach this, but ... enough time. Many questions came into my head as I toiled on how to crack ... while, I felt I would just major in something that was “pure” science

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  , Sean. You yourself can visit the hack website here: Waldo Map I <3 ... The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  suggested that I should write a book on college applications. Although I ... the summer, I had ample opportunity to compile what may (someday) be the ... upon us, I'm proud to present you with - drum roll please - my very first

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  thinking about the CMS thesis that i am soon to write and how much i would ... beautiful[/caption] learned how to make my own network graphs! - i really ... figuring out how to host this was an exercise within itself. i definitely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  felt like i would burst with joy whenever i talked about it. i play the ... i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... used to feel like home, dusting off once-beloved keepsakes. these days, i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  generally measure my mental health by how often I remember to take care of my ... things I did:  [caption id="attachment_83837" align ... .  compared to last year, I now live closer to our main wing lounge so I spent a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  first name is Edward. When I got to MIT, Edmund and I thought it would be ... questions. How To Respond To Your Offer Of Admission. I hear from the folks ... residents yesterday. I feel compelled to note here how AWESOME EC is. If I

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  Okay, so I'm sort of cheating - I already wrote this post on my math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... at MIT but not taking any classes. How awesome is that? I know someone

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... whole seemed so abstract and so distant that I basically thought it would ... Senior House would be right for me, and when results were posted, I got my

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I mention that now? You may be surprised by how many first year students at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  that I would know how to do tougher problems. The next day I took the ... was on point, no denying that. And I would soon learn that it wasn ... studying the night before, I would take care of everything else so that I had

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  ’m not sure that I would want to pursue pure physics research as a career ... computational research project after the other. Which is to say, I know how to ... if I had infinite time I would totally also learn [annotation note="i

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  outcome? How can we even compare outcomes, like, would it be better to be in ... , much better than I can, about how we make and destroy our future selves ... will be free. The deeper consideration, I think, is about how a school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into studio and not come out…till the wee hours of the morning. I think I recall ... – that’s how I function. Using a stool to press down on a drying foam

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  i attended junior year, they would play The Woods by Hollow Coves a ... , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other ... was terrified, terrified that i would never be able to come back

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  've noted an increasing number of what I would consider bad usernames. The ... , where I got to meet many fantastic students. After wonderful meetings in ... , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  if rupi kaur went to mit milk and funny

  

  _hidden]every time i get an email from you my heart skips a beat how i wish you would ... blogger and sometimes i write bad instagram poetry enjoy —an intro post ... cheeks flushing these late nights always drive me crazy next time i promise

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  phone calls were good and to be honest, I would’ve been happy working with ... watched me do a lot of math about the amount of taxes I would have to pay ... undergrad, nor did I have any faith in myself that I would be able to land

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  deep, or whatever. I’ve developed a clearer picture of how I think about ... possibly even both of those things at once. (I would definitely be more okay ... to music for a bit, think about how much work I had to do, think about

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015