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  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  , and I — a skinny seventeen year old Jewish kid from a public high school ... note='Here, as before, I am referring primarily to performance on high ... Today I spoke with MIT News about the impact the Supreme Court

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  random man at the end of his lap. "Can we share this lane with you? There ... introductory swimming class instead.) When you arrived, drowning was highly ... ?" Me: "Hi. I'd like to take the swim test, and I was wondering if I can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  freshman year. I was lost and disillusioned by the end, unable to see my ... instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me ... How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  mistake, if i mess up, if there ends up being a parallel universe that i'm happier in, if i end up in the worst of the billion billion possible futures i could end up in—so what? why should i care? i'll never know for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  test in high school, I would have received a 120% and possibly a card on my birthday. I'm not in high school. I got a B. It's been one week ... of high school, and I now understand textbook biology thoroughly enough

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  ended up in my spam folder bc I guess my email decided that it doesn ... , a high schooler who I had met through admissions shadow a student ... a time?? -Alison"] All right, story time.[/annotation] I was hired to

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  vacation at the end of a busy winter break, and I am excited to dig back in ... , finally, ends here. Oh, yeah, and I beat the election of the Speaker by ... delay are unknown to me, but I did remember waking up once and being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... -fresh vegetables from MIT's weekly farmer's market, I barely noticed the initial

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  . "Wait...beat! That's it!" I called my friend David - a man so metal, he ... - she will be living up high in French House come fall. Anna, who ... story - I loved how much I loved reading Kate's blogs, whether about math

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... admissions decisions to applicants, but I was wondering if students on campus

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  black licorice. i know how to make a lot of balloon animals and hats ... , but i’m worried my hands are too small. i went through a phase in high ... stranger to the blogs), and she has kindly allowed me to share them. I think

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  So I know the entire world has been waiting anxiously for the release of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even ... my trademark bunny hat. Don't worry, nobody dies in this entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  humanities teachers throughout high school, this was the first time I’ve been ... that I love. So, of course, I ended the semester by meeting up with ... Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  for 3 semesters (i guess, this does not necessarily imply an ending, but ... this spring, i am doing a study abroad semester at Imperial College London. what this means is that i have been away from MIT for a little over

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey, I should blog! 7:40 PM: Erons '12 walks into my room. Erons is not ... . Incidentally, the set of such people that I know contains one member: namely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

    I like telling people that I’m a six-foot-tall man in my head. I ... lilt of my voice and the curl of my hair. I’ve chosen to be the man ... high school. I was the only girl in my AP Calculus BC class, and I was

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of ... on it. As a prefrosh, I didn't know that much about the dorms so RBA was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  at MIT. I did not, shall we say, come from the most stringent of high ... I'm not in a position to argue.) But, hey, take the moral high ground ... Today I am bringing you my MIT Survival Guide, which is a list I made

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  high school, when I was lucky to be introduced to genomics by Dr ... Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... the right and under the man in the orange hoodie on the left. In the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural ... after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts ... -up-the-stairs-without-knee-bending contests; watching math majors play Guitar Hero while I pretended to be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009