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• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... was going to take me on, so there would be no surprises, and I would ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered ... applications from students in the process of waiting for their green cards. If there is a change in your citizen status during the application process
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too ... shavings in my hair and sawdust on my jeans. I had grand plans for our team ... team captain, in my junior year, as well as coach for our drive team. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  myself for some reason. I was so self-conscious of how I would be perceived ... I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... in that region."]Japan[/annotation] and getting upset when I saw my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in ... pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my ... , gradescope, canvas, "<enter any city I have lived in the last 3 years

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... entry. It's amazing to compare how I act and write now with some of my ... when I got here. How much of that is MIT related and how much of that is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note ... "]SEVT[/annotation]. In sophomore year, I helped with the Pi Day video animation and grinded for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  . And I certainly wasn't thinking about how it would all look on a college ... ). What would I like to see: inasmuch as Stanford says their students ... AP tests. I am, however, disturbed that anyone would advocate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an ... -9 would be ✨perfect✨ for what I wanted. When my student advisor suggested ... -3,[/annotation] I thought I didn't even need to consider the chance that I would

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  chuckles and blogging. While I'm sure I'll have more Jeremy-isms later in the ... ) "Hey! How's it going! I'm Jeremy. Just FYI." (talking about the Elmo ... are bad." "This is detestable, I would say." (after I suggest

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  would outweigh anything else. I obviously had no idea how hard my 18 ... gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you ... afternoon about a month ago, there was a knock on my door. When I opened it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... ’ powers of inference. When I saw Firebringer in my freshman fall at MIT ... —it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in ... one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... the pool). We learned how to incorporate water jetskis as well (in case

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I live in room 251, which means I live on the second floor. More specifically, I live in 2 East, or 2E for short. 2E is like a family to me, and I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  this feeling that I would fit in perfectly. You might want to chime up at ... in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... my mind. I wrote them down on a board in my room. They stuck. Shifting

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends ... , Asymptones, NaNoWriMo—but I enjoyed the camaraderie, enjoyed learning how to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  ’m smiling in this picture or squinting because i can’t see through my foggy ... , I’m also wearing Merino wool socks in this picture. Merino wool comes ... cold when I step out is because of this guy. 10/10 would recommend. 4

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018