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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  felt in class. If I was bored, I would mess around with colors and ... , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  thinking about academics at all -- but you could pick out trends, in how I ... .02 would give me some more time. The hours I’d spent catching up in 8 ... trajectory, I would actually learn more physics in 8.02. I think.  I wish I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  bio major, right? How did I do in 7.012 (my very first biology class at ... four years here, which I hope would be of use to incoming freshmen ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... astrophysicist. Now something strange happened in that year, I would co ... out some time from my Jam-Packed schedule in third year (mostly I would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... I was in third grade when those students were running around MIT), and ... current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... school that makes somebody smile, makes them wonder how in the world this ... Facilities stared at it in awe, not quite sure what to think. How, erm, how

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... semesters left, and there are at least fifteen or twenty classes that I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I would decorate my scraper bike. I DO remember that I sent in a copy of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... join. How should I optimize my courseload to get a headstart? I actually

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  to say, if I could go back in time to four years ago—I would try to ... application in, and how I felt about each activity. For example, I was musical ... , which they would have done if they were sure I wouldn’t fit in or survive

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next ... in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school - my best friend told me that some kids were betting on how long I would ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days ... answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your ... [/annotation]vividly, as though it's only been a month.   I knew I would be nervous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  . But you…you're getting into MIT. I know it. How could they not take you ... wonderfully exhilarating all at the same time. There would be hopeful, "I'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  would discuss how the concepts from that day were used in the real world ... would come away inspired. I felt like I genuinely learned useful skills in ... phenomena in neuroscience to computer science. I enjoyed how it was broken

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  to have a tumblr blog back in 2015 or 2016, and I would always write ... I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... ’s in, but before that conversation, I viewed him as just that—someone who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  praying that seniority would work in my advantage helped. I also desperately ... in August. But #5 has been giving me nightmares--or it would, if I ... irrationally) fearing that I would be starving in June. The answer to that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018