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  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally ... got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day, around 3-4 inches/7.5-10 centimeters of snow fell. according to this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  of the National College Match. If you are not matched with any school ... your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  of the National College Match. If you are not matched with any school ... your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  of laps around our high school track that the first 100 meter curve has ... high school track. I quickly became addicted. I ran all of the longer ... "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  lot of undergrads choose to pursue graduate school in their chosen field ... Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making ... MIT calls itself an engineering school! Luckily, all that is about to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  'm writing this after finishing my third and final CP* event, which was some of ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and ... ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  . Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and ... writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, "What's quizbowl?" So of ... the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as ... and the fabulous glamorous divas of popular culture. Got it? Now ... of their new music, t-shirts, posters, bracelets, branded water bottles

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  reminds me of my old high school habits. In high school, I pushed myself to ... . During my senior year of high school, I managed to calm these habits down ... since freshman year of high school, easily looking at my 6.006 psets and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  to New York City by 6:30 AM on Amtrak, immediately greeted by some of ... of snowy [annotation note="the jury is still out of whether Westchester ... former [annotation note="Putz is a hall in East Campus, one of MIT's dorms

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  school year, two events occurred last Thursday and Friday that required a ... ) and the end-of-season fencing banquet. Here are some thoughts if you’re into that kind of thing. The Photography of Ring Delivery: Ridiculous

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  everything went my way. I did have a lot of hardships in both the school of MIT and the school of life. But I never stopped moving forward. That's how ... making any of that happen because it was something that future me would

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... decadent brunches, going shopping, so on and so forth. One of our many stops that weekend was the Richmond Night Market, a local attraction full of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  University School of Medicine have found that the quarter to half of dyslexic ... or graduate school, when the length and difficulty of assigned readings ... enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  Friday evening was the unveiling of the Class of 2009 Brass Rat. Ring Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT undergrad experience. A lot of you probably have class rings from high school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  expected to feel some amount of relief with the ending of the school year. I ... . I used to hate the last day of the school year, almost more than I ... bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  More flavors of an MIT student summer. *    *    * Xiaoyue X. '15 (majoring in Course 2: Mechanical Engineering) Geez, we have a lot of Course 2 ... non-work goals! What are yours? Take lots and lots of pictures &

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014