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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  , 80% of the time. I'm glad that I made friends at other universities ... At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... from Day 1 that most of my professors didn't waltz unobstructed from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... . Harvard has solemn portraits of old men looking smart in decorated frames

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  University, Boston University, Olin College of Engineering, Berklee College of ... three main housing options (listed below in order of increasing personal ... apartment. Lots of people sign year-long leases on apartments (including those

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  I've been busy recently because of CPW. Like last year, CPW is being ... people sent lots of messages. Trinidad, one of the admissions directors ... not be tolerated[/caption] Unfortunately, I was weak of will. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  18.304 (discrete math) is one of two communication intensive (CI-M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... combination of slide presentations and chalktalks. Sometimes there are also p

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  communicators about their specialty, but am equally admiring of writers like David ... The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those ... my dream job. You learn and write about any area of science that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  surrounded by people who excel in every corner of the universe, and no longer ... . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;Register for the intensive German course at University of Zürich.   ... !  Through the University of Zürich Language Centre, sign up for a ... They're not kidding when they say the Swiss are some of the most

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  different players across all of campus. This competition had various “game ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For much of the summer, I worked with Whitney Z. ‘21 designing, iterating

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities ... . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the following categories. Some of it is excellent advice. Some of it will not make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education"]OME[/annotation]—likely my freshman year [annotation note=" My senior year of high school, I ... whole thing has a couple of parts: a class component the summer before

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot of students are gapping this year, and others are considering taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true ... fondness, as a decade of so many Firsts that made me the person I am today

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the ... because that’s… that’s just kind of the feeling that goes along with this ... younger, which will be the goal of my blogs! Anyway, I’ll introduce myself

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling ... of june has felt like a blur. i don’t feel like anything really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020