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  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  . Alvin wrote, "I am doing my SATs in june 3,2006, how can also do SAT ... sort of review, but I'm still quite iffy on how I'll do...so would a poor ... wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  plan in retrospect, but in the moment, I remember how I didn’t know what ... themselves across.”  This isn’t how I imagined coming out would turn out, but ... . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you ... rhetorical question-response would be: “Isn’t that like asking how I would save ... , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... exciting IAP...I didn't fully understand how much there was out there ... that I went to because it sounded exciting. :) Participated in Mystery

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• 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

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

  

  engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... how much of this I actually get to touch on/experience in the next four ... interesting things in the world, and I’m feeling lost and confused in the best

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

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a ... 't get in, because I'm not a genius. 5. Can I have some life advice? 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  celebrations in New York City. I returned to Boston last Sunday (which happened ... . I would post a picture but why should I embarrass myself like that ... Yes, it's been a while since my last entry...much has happened. I am

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  applications at home (Ducksberry), and in the afternoon into the evening I read ... world again. I had a great day of reading. The applications in today ... . I was wondering if my login account would still be available for use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  . Or maybe drown. But it would be exciting! In fact, while I wasn ... moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with amazing ... the Library, and pelt out tunes that would make Beethoven roll in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  's because we all want to imagine how things would've turned out, in the ... examples in Tagalog, and that's how I learned that David was also Filipino ... 's timing so cruel to us I don't know how to be alright Don't want to live in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  graduate for my Mech. E degree. I probably would have had a better academic ... regret doing the in-between stuff that I really shouldn’t have, such as a ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  could learn when I told them I didn't have experience in those areas. How: I ... Notion calendar to track how much I work in both Python and Fusion360 over ... helped me remember how much I liked writing—in 2024, I'm simply hoping to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  this moment about what my aspiration is in life, I would tell you ... totally positive.” When I registered for classes in the fall (last) semester ... also like reading about various political philosophies. In the past I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how ... always just me. i find myself in my room, not entirely remembering how i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have ... a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I would really do much when I joined. I figured the first few weeks would

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  night in my early years here. i treat myself like i would an old friend. i ... than get stuck in a self-destructive loop. i think younger mel would be ... community in the past few months. mostly, how i wouldn't be where i am now

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... would have made me laugh in astonishment if it did not make me cry. I was ... structure in constant, intermittently blinding dust storms. I'd look up and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  weeks. I couldn't begin to fathom how many other people are going through ... ,000 views in four days. It's funny, I had thought that to garner views, my ... where I photoshopped things in creative ways, i.e. "My Two Cents". However

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  more. In hindsight, I would say I struggled to balance (or even identify ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of ... they graduated. With 7 years post-grad, I’m still in the midst of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025