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  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  useful skill is figuring out how to interest other people in solving your ... research mathematics is staring at a very hard problem and having no idea how ... people is a useful skill in general and later on in life if you want to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  've been thinking about how it's okay to be in different spaces, especially dorms, at MIT. There is a narrative, I think, of fitting in to one dorm ... friend who urops at my lab about our research over gluten-free cake in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  discovery. Exaclty how this came to pass is a long story and I'll skip it here ... medicine, but in all science.” For Sacks, a doctor, the point is that ... refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. How could it be otherwise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  a pre-CPW post, and this is my CPW update, informing you all about how incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  The following is a guest post by Jorge T. '18.   The Power ... is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I ... university to attend. If this is you, I hope these words help decide. A couple

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... home, and more about the fact that college is much closer to “the real ... 70%. Or 90%.) In the beginning of this year, I suffered from a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  .[/caption] I never talked much about Jewishness as a blogger, because I was in a ... seventeen and a half years.[/caption] Hello, blog readers! This is Jessie ... Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome myself, which is something I didn’t know in college

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  (@dasharez0ne this is a credit not a plug) that made me decide to write this ... they got to know me because my default face is, to quote a former classmate, "pissed off." When I do talk, it's in a monotone that's deeper than

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

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

  

  organelles of the cell. This is still very much a work in progress, but we have ... Look at this if you don't what a UROP is ... , one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a ... brunch with a friend in Palo Alto and then stop by the Stupid Shit No One ... . ISEF will take up lots of my time, so I won't get to do much else in LA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a ... reserved tickets for rainforest entry a month in advance (they sell out fast ... sets in advance, so we traded between ourselves and tried to catch a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing ... my PhD in Course 20. Just the other week I had a lovely lunch with Ceri, Petey, rfong, and Danny in the schmancy new Admissions building. Bryan is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... aerospace education. There was a moment which stuck in my mind. I was

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  the Student Center to check in with the Orientation people. (This is a ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had ... there and make it a triple.) So when someone elsewhere in the building

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to ... is completely optional): "On a separate sheet, show us and/or tell us ... Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon ... Gmail inbox was already filling up with promises of “FREE FOOD” in return ... spending two-thirds of my summer in the unfamiliar chaos of a foreign country

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  think about a lot in admissions: how geography shapes experience, but also ... kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask.In

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  it. if i already know what i want, and believe in it hard enough, is there any point to thinking? putting too much importance in what other ... this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the ... that this class is going to kick my ass, but in a good way. This class ... ! Staying in shape: One of my goals this semester is to start running on a

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  really getting a feel for what is out there for me in the computer science ... Fest. - SpringFest is MIT's annual concert where we bring in a super cool guest (in ... resolutions I accomplished in this list, as well. 2021 Resolutions Go to a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022