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• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  . Throughout my entire high school career, I always considered myself a pretty average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs and extracurricular activities, I got involved within my school and my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you can optimize walking significantly when armed with basic knowledge of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of ... variety of humanities classes.  Don’t get me wrong, MIT has its share of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  experiences i had. much of my high school experience (junior year in particular ... a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Best from staff

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an ... hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he's not wrong. If you rewinded back to high school, a younger me (still just

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  other schools and are interested in other things and are still a lot of ... than a state school, and of course a talk by Questbridge Co-founder Dr ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... done this weekend instead of studying for finals, exactly? Well, what I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president, Susan Hockfield. Both of the office cameras were checked out by others, so ... was fairly packed, with much of the MIT community representing, as well

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now ... campus right now. Basically, each freshman has an advisor: a member of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  via US Mail to Professor Jan Wampler, Director Of Design - Undergraduate ... I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  about the social impact of the gullwing design in the 1950's. But, alas ... DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates, authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan!" Well anyway, I just got 11 hours of sleep last night, so I finally feel

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  grades. But you DO have to submit it, regardless of if you have updates or ... free to contact the office. I already graduated high school or I’m not currently in school. What do I do? Ya still gotta submit the form, even if you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of ... school (which is a phrase that makes me sound like I'm 64 and recounting my ... wasn't true at your high school, but in all ten classes I took there was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  ’t do well on most of them, unfortunately.  Grad School??? After going ... the GRE, we would've had to start studying in senior year of high school ... programs we found and are feeling excited about the idea of school again

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  . We talked a lot mostly about what we've been doing outside of school ... So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="493"] high school vs college: the duality of ... my freshman year of high school, and it was such an incredible ... friends"]60+ days[/annotation] of anime and have read tens of thousands of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as ... sure that I wasn't taking more than Lufthansa's legal limit of 23 kg per

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat brothers was also staying in DC, interning for the Department of Energy. So ... ? After some googling, it seems that the construction of the two is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  for this school year's final SAT administration on Saturday, June 4, are ... II of your choosing. For you juniors and sophomores, I highly recommend the June administration of the SAT IIs, if for no other reason than a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005