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  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  enthralled by the vast opportunities that computer science could unlock for me ... neuroscience program (Course 9, Brain and Cognitive Sciences) stood out to me ... . When it came time to choose a school, I felt like it was easy for me to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  so on. I met with a nice lady who encouraged me to include my Olympiad ... unraveled each day put me in a state of complacency career-wise. Then one ... -the-clouds imagination that MIT got me familiar with. The designs were thematic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  farmers' markets in the summer. It reminded me that summer was special ... feeling of not belonging, and then he was talking to me (or trying to) for a ... Calculus class” “really, who?” “um...me?” “OH but you’re basically asian bc

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  Olsen, the host, agreed to let me reproduce the audio (immediately below ... hardest to communicate, and it's the thing that surprised me the most when I ... ? Chris Peterson: Well, right, your tone indicates that you expect me to say

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  .nano, and they let me (a clueless undergrad) use it![/caption] It might sound ... ), [annotation note="It reminds me a lot of the Rube-Goldberge-esque games I ... just so oddly satisfying to me."]there are fixed slots where the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  reference, the previous sign was a printed banner which to me felt pretty old ... . It's 100% free and has both an online and desktop version. Trust me. It ... willing to show me how to actually work one made the learning experience so

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  lives. And then there's me! I don't have any of those kinds of ideas, but the good people running the meeting let me come along anyway. So now I get to hang out with these people who are much brighter than me and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  at a company that provides excellent lunch, giving me recipe inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I grappled with changes in my personal life that led me to question my reason

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  feminist lens. It strikes me as the kind of play more often studied than ... little about football, but I thoroughly enjoyed this anyway. Gave me a lot ... single time.” He smiled at me, a dark sardonic thing. “Half the world

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  , and I got rejected. If a single rejection already made me sick of the ... someone. If you asked me why I shake hands, or hug people, or sing Happy ... just blame it on Zoom and call it a day, and it doesn't satisfy me to end

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  me. Stay in touch, friends. Talk to upperclassmen. They are your ... UROP mentors. The best way to treat the Impostor Syndrome for me was to ... around me discussing all the things that went into opening a new school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just before the doors closed and they gave me a seat. Close call. After

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  posts are kind of tear-jerkers (they were for me at least), but they will ... this year, there were a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears came. Some would call me foolish for getting this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  about their experiences. Plus it was a lot of fun. Alice Brooks told me about being on Shark Tank, I had Bernard Gordon try to convince me to go ... Goldstein, a venture capitalist, gave me a few pointers on my product pitch

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  , it dawned on me that I would actually be eligible for many internships ... an internship, it’s very important for me to have a sense of what ... for IROP, which took me to Hong Kong for the summer. Also, I'm pretty

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and ... the answer is 5″. Sometimes “just algebra” takes me an hour. 3 ... /worse at (math takes me forever, but physics is usually ok). In high school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an ... me to not be involved with much of anything, so I set out to fix that ... Information Act, which allowed me to send the following to the Federal Bureau of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  are no silly videos of me singing off-tune today. There are no silly ... , Professor Tapscott, being the total boss professor that he is, gave me the go ... she doesn’t love me back. Why does life suck so much? I love Rosa

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  worries though, I've transcribed here every question someone asked me ... email me and I'll get to it when I can. Please put "Question about MIT" in ... fine for me, but above all your writing should feel natural to you. If

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  are better if you do them with the big crowd, and for me, given a chance ... . Professor Lander was great; but for me, I felt that it wasn't completely worth ... " - just allow me to say that I feel if you are a student at MIT, you should

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008