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  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... stops and worlds apart. The most often cited difference is in the color

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  displacement I can’t quite explain—like whatever was cycling around me in MIT has ... , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... and State College have both become home, though in very different ways ... made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine ... space, you can do most anything: I’ve taken naps on the couches, grabbed ... who are registered at MIT. You can gain tap access to the Cheney Room by

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  ’s great if you can somehow avoid getting sick in the first place, but if you ... literally 0 times) at 10PM on Thursday. (It's not fun, in case you were ... just got tired of taking better care of things I can replace...You can

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  my own tomatoes in a bucket on my stoop, but I can't really grow a lot ... can come in every day, seven days a week, and get $10 worth of produce ... most recent trip to Daily Table. You can also follow their much prettier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  code in Python in a Jupyter Notebook (via Anaconda). My data and code can ... , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  ’re in it, you can basically head in any direction you want and land on ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  auditorium. And just for you guys, I got some footage of his talk. Sorry in ... 00b. So, sorry Mark. Can't help you out, but Rachel can! There are ... In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be ... -690 5% From what you wrote you'd think being in the 700-740 range and ... Jurassic Park was a work of fiction, and just like you can't reanimate a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  - in conjunction with your pre-med course work. And if you get a B ... get to see you here in the fall! To those of you who didn't sleep at all ... The most frequent question I received during CPW was: "You're pre

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  , Michelle. You were Good at Things in high school, remember? You won stuff ... years in advance and feed any obsession you might have with your lack of a ... point where you can’t empathize with the difficulties they face, and I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... . Sure, I can tell you his favorite video game, or what student groups he ... up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  having each other to lean on." And also: "You can't take any other classes in the Aero/Astro department until you've completed both semesters ... you who can relate to the kind of uncertainty, soul-searching, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the ... out pretty well for you, didn't it, Washington? The statue in the ... could do about it. Now, there are a lot of things that you can influence

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this format. Some of these went [annotation note="if you know..you know ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is ... have a feeling that the scariest dragons that you and I will face in our ... “Forget You” in the car with her, joking about MIT. It was difficult

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... little descriptions (in case you want to pick and choose which videos to ... (again), Meet the Bloggers  You Can't Just Ask for Prefrosh || VEDA #18

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015