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• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  courses are on par with the AP curriculum. How would I get that across in my ... incorrect. How should I fill in the self-reported coursework section? Should I ... , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... being on campus, and my freshman year in general. I don't really have any coherent thoughts, yet. But in this moment, I feel a lot of resentment for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  MIT's study abroad program in Japan. "I've always been interested in ... to have won the Morikami scholarship." "I didn't realize how much it ... knows it will be an adjustment. "Now, I'm a big fish in a small pond," he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  , so I kind of told him how I thought it was done in theory and made him ... brown... how could I resist? I'll be in Dyke, VA for the next day or two ... dormitory phone and asked me if I would like to go to service for Rosh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  would say to one another in a different world. I'm hungry for the real ... hanging around and talking. I can see how I might not enjoy that in a ... Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  shy and afraid of us, so I—in typical dumb 10-year old fashion—would ... soon as I stepped in the room where she would be put down, I felt an ... lucky to have had her in my life, and I know how much joy she brought

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  . Last fall, I saw it would actually be offered in the spring and taught by ... Direction because I thought it would be interesting to evaluate how being an ... world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  thinking recently about how I love Tucson but I may never live here again ... in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It ... I started telling my mom about MechE, how I’d grown with it and how

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book ... the thoughtful gift. I say this to show how biased I was against Kaur ... beautiful. I would switch from reading it casually to trying to observe and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  awesome, but I'm not sure how one would be able to take such a tour. Maybe ... .03- well, taking two math classes at once isn't so easy. I don't know how ... good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  freshman year when I stuffed every single thing in my room into cardboard ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U ... Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the yarn intertwines, my heart can mend too. I never realized I would ... . Who would've known that ten years later, I would still be knitting? I ... pixelated designs on my laptop to recreate in fabric. I couldn't stop. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  , in second grade. I got a little cup taped to my desk and I would watch ... In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... these days. Adapting.   . . .   I grew up in that house, but

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the ... friends asked me how I was doing: The passage was so narrow that I had to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  walked into a door with my nose in a book. How I didn’t break my neck going ... coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  where I would be now. And in one short year (come to think of it, I only ... (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with ... , everything looks nicer in lowercase. maybe i'll stop capitalizing now, bwahaha

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  wondering, how much would a so-so interview hurt chances of admission in the ... . :-) ------------------------------------- If I would like to play for an athletic team, should I contact the coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  in Fall 2007. It certainly showed me how much I liked physics, though ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... original. My second UROP I started in Summer 2006, and it was undeniably the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  , Chris '06 and Wes '07, allow me to test how obnoxious my flash would be ... auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006