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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  high school, but this was nothing like that. Instead of soldering ... , and even the occasional art design keep the right side of my brain very ... 've been insanely busy reading thousands of applications - probably many of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  basic idea of GTL is that you teach a classroom full of high school ... work as basically TAs as part of a middle school/high school outreach ... really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  been writing to offer me a job writing handouts for one of AoPS's ... all of this without ever leaving your room.  What are you going ... you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... without the risk of failure Above all us, every upperclassman has one piece

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high school, which required considerable effort--when I heard Sam's Mom crying from the living room. "SAM!" she yelled. "The Cornucopia of Doom is on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  trying to find disinfecting spray at Target at the beginning of this school ... prints of sloth shirts designed by members of ESP. I also have Intro to ... boxes. But where will I store the rest? One of my friends offers me her

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  Missa, Junior year definitely was a rough time. Most of high school feels ... next year, where I found out that my high school offered fencing as a ... floor of my school on Wednesdays until 6:30 came around and I could call

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... , searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  history: MIT was one of the few schools that didn’t divest from ... protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  have heard of otherwise until graduate school, if ever. It's one of many ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... of Qiaochu, a critically acclaimed math blogger (yes, blogs can be

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  ="this seems like a lot, but i read 150 books in my junior year of high school ... i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  - so far, at least): 6.046: Design and Analysis of Algorithms - this ... 9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 ... medical school so that i have a post-graduation roadmap/lifeplan explore

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... myself in high school and really getting rid of the mentality of this is ... to be in college. You can shed the skin of your old high school self

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  psychology. AP Psychology was one of my favorite classes in high school so I ... from 7th grade to junior year of high school scouring different fandoms ... of it I remember. 6.006 - Introduction to Algorithms; One of my major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the ... took a physics class in high school but it was more hands on and not AP ... diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  . MIT can offer you everything in terms of academics. I could not ask for ... . At a school like MIT, people are from around the globe, so I know I am ... changes daily), adventure I had taken into a new area of Boston, or just to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  retrospect, I was proud of what I had turned in. Four years of high school ... . Coffee was a big part of my high school experience in Fresno, something ... , or my high school preparing for the next class of students to arrive

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch ... ’t remember the horrible times of online school back in 2020, think timezone ... weeks of the year, for two years straight — especially at a school like

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  75% of the pset left to do. I chug along and get through most of the ... along until I get some form of an answer, and call it a day. I definitely ... , brush my teeth, and run downstairs. It’s just like a normal school day. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  senior year of high school. Additionally, the high school I went to had ... . I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical ... school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022