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  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... ..." YOU: "Uh, aren't you a premed too?" HIM: "Yeah, but I'm not one of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
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  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  Together - A conglomeration of all the resources that MIT has to offer in one ... Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and ... . Anxiety is an overwhelming flow of feelings within and around oneself. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  're not freshmen/freshpeople until after convocation! ~Conservation of frosh ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to ... kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , the creator of the show, who gave us permission and offered us some ... 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

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • October 6, 2020
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  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a documentary about an Arizona high school robotics team of undocumented Mexican ... panel. Sofia Campos (MCP 2015), Jose G. (Course 16, Class of 2017), Renata

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  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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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT, especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... proceeds throughout the month of February. The pandemic looms larger in the subconscious of campus, but it is still Someone Else's Problem. We go through all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
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  “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…

  

  protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a ... /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... I am. All of that stuff is mostly true. I do like music! I bake every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  need help but the kind of help they can offer is not exactly the help I ... note="It's one of those fox, chicken, bag of corn problems. Dog 1 is old ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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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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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  perspective will be different, because, you know, I was one of the three directors of the program. The why game Teach anything, learn anything ... good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... colleges - not such a good idea. it's tiring, it costs a ridiculous sum of ... with the college essay. Ever walk into a shop with one of those glass

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008