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  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  asks: How is food in MIT? I remember you writing about that amazing ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... wrote in a previous entry (er..I think it was October..?) about being

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  work through the problem, and I would be left in the dark in terms of ... good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man ... classes, I tried really hard to keep this in mind. But the pressure to take

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  , Adam and I have been ODing on ice cream -- we went to Tosci's in Central ... the summer. This is my third summer in a row in Cambridge, and I wouldn ... : Yeah, I did that. I got my last grade in today. (MIT grades go up on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  , and New Haven, CT. I’m currently working on a joint MBA/PhD in ... and the students I meet are inspiring in so many different ways ... applicants are perfectly nice in their communication, but I’ve had a few

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  like a puzzle in hopes of solving this sorrow. But, no matter how hard I ... filled the void left after everything I thought I was had vanished. In the ... my whole identity around my confidence. So, in a way, the world I had

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and contact information for your EC is to log in to your my.mit.edu account ... applicants to the ECs in their area. Some ECs interview for just one school so

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  hallmates Brian '08, Ilan '08, and Matt '08. This year, I'm a TA. I'm in the ... that many friends already do and that I've been interested in doing for a ... Jitsu stresses...well, I'll let the website do that, since it does a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  , thoughtful, busy, creative. i would find a community while learning how to ... would switch my major from [annotation note='i mean, how much thought had ... stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  ="missa was the nickname i went by in middle and high school ... , which i participated in from eighth to tenth grade. it was a good program ... : I've tried it all, and I've been bad at all of them. In eighth grade

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my ... I will say that I believe politics are relevant, and in my mission to ... night. In fact, Clinton and McCain were both here, though as far as I know

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, and I'd guess that number will be in that neighborhood again ... action decisions in mid-March. In my experience, I don't find extra formal ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. A frequent line to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  would result in said structure. So far, I'm working on parts 1 and 2 ... the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing research.[/annotation] Mind you, how could I not? Over 90% of MIT students

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  go wrong? i lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness and i would ... , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  . This was originally how I got so good at Isaac, where I would just watch ... to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally ... so long, you start realizing the patterns in how mapped out and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway, telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite tell which one was winning over me. I’m not afraid, I said to him in our

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  went with high school with. As in, a couple I distinctly remember running ... haven't changed much at all, there are still a few things I hadn't done in ... couldn't help but think that this wasn't something I would have done

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  is how I deal with my problems. Alan: The MIT Picture Scavenger Hunt ... became 60 items, which would put us in first place with a fairly ... Gregor, because, you know, Alan and I were staying in MacGregor this summer, Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  , maybe i would've had fun doing things and meeting people in london. but knowing how badly i keep in touch with people, i'd have stopped talking to ... . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  -Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his ... still mostly fried from sleep so I suggest somewhere in MIT. We also ... I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  I don't know how familiar you are with "Wolfram," but I'll assume you ... 't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does ... smartest software I've ever seen. What does it do? It does math. Easy math

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009