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• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted[annotation note="a wonderful Next House subcommunity where I live called 4W, or the ... this chapter, but, in this moment, I am just so purely happy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... , I remember being average was "BAD" in high school because you needed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  about a new space in MTL where students can work with the best new [things ... about these ideas, but such is life when I can only use the top ten ... , but I think the best table always builds the house in a new way. My

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent ... took everything in me not to add to my schedule.  Above all else, I love ... in LA and got back just the day before the first day of classes. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  . Right now, I'm sitting in Hayden Library, watching the sun sink over the ... too early, but I love the aesthetics: children in knit caps, sunshine on ... , and aesthetics are not so interesting. But maybe I'm in a sentimental

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... away in the Kavli Center for Astrophysics (Bldg 37) on Vassar Street. I ... again, and it rained on me in my tshirt as I crossed Mass Ave but that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... in the tagline, the fight's begun but not yet won, and I'd rather blog ... thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues ... that I can understand later when I'm cramming studying the night before ... I'm taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  I can't believe it. It's been a whole year. An entire year. They ... with comments. I'll have a couple more entries (gosh, I'm overdue) in ... . I hung around the Infinite today and caught Ben and Matt as they were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life I can consider true friends. There are those people in your life that ... something like “haha that was honestly as hot as MIT will be in December, I am

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been in that half several times now, and i'm lucky that i've never really ... i can see how far others get when they push off and glide, or see how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  time right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in ... coming to mind. But during my years in admissions, I've seen students take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  can send in our January scores, I would like to take the SAT again. I ... that the earliest I can start is in August? (I like to get things done ... be taken" date. Who do I need to contact in order to change it so my

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with ... (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  a pset-test-class kind of way. More in a let-me-absorb-as-much-of-this-place-as-I-can-before-I-leave kind of way. In three short months, I'll be graduating...can't believe it ... finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  21W minor. Apparently you can’t do that sort of thing in one day, but I ... late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in ... -recorded) the two classes I was taking in January. The [annotation note

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  , "I bet I can name that tune in three notes." And then I think about the ... . However, I feel like I've been so delinquent in responding to comments on ... anyone at MIT own a BMX bike? ANYone?" I actually know a few people in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  -arts college in New England, where admissions officials had promised to assign ... mine. There are plenty of good schools I can go to." Mr. Conroy says more ... . Every time it happens, I can't believe it is happening." And every time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a ... deferred in EA. Can I call or email to find out why I was deferred? No. We ... I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  own. But every night I collapse in bed, sleep as much as I can, and wake ... , that pursuing skating and MIT meant I would be subpar in both, not able ... have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017