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  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  high school, blissfully unaware of the cutthroat competition of the South ... of a high school experience I'll never get back. Science bowl isn ... of my high school days.

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... page. For most MIT bloggers, that change is documented, like dozens of ... of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  computer the whole weekend, I was ready to take advantage of this weekend off ... was far from the most productive weekend of the term. I tried to work ... section of Singapore. I had been really guilty about not devoting enough

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  (sorry Malcom), and as evidence I offer you this video of him shaking his ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... stealers. Then it was time to head outside and enjoy the boatiness of the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... 've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of ... facets of identity. There are so many nuances of friendships, academics

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  . Last fall, equipment designers from Specialized, one of the leading high ... researcher at the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, has an impressive list of clients -- from Tour de France stage winners to some of North America

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  school too. I remember spending the majority of my sophomore and junior ... I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... . Anyway, some of those comments are all like, "MIT is hard, yeah, yeah

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of ... I enjoy outside of school. Still, these couldn't suffice for social ... happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  % of your friends are within 2 feet of you at any time while you're awake ... to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of ... capital of whichever Dakota or Carolina you find to be more mneumonically

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers ... sentences might be different —  "I transferred schools, and..."; "I took a mix

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  design and validation of the electronics, and those worked, too. I feel ... parts. I loved the camaraderie of people all grinding to finish their part of the project — there were vital sections of the project that I never

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  Internet filtering in public schools and libraries as part of an broader ... continuing this kind of research since I finished grad school as a way to stay ... mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... (and this might make a lot of people mad), whether you are an INTJ or an Aquarius or Year of the Horse is Not Important and you don't need to base

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  applications comes even as the number of graduating high school seniors held ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Kao, STAFF REPORTER November 16, 2010   The number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  survive socially and academically at a school of geniuses? When I was ... of being allowed anywhere near this school. In a sort of last attempt ... school filled with some of the smartest students in the world? I knew I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  ’ve always loved school. But if you were to go dig up copies of my middle school report cards, you’d think I was lying, because in the span of the ... year, I was in and out of school nearly every day. I finally had a name

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  often outside of school. When you get to see people all hours of the day ... ’ve already changed a lot since high school. I’ve been a lot less afraid of ... that I graduated from grade school. Ironically, it’s really starting to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  School at the Art Institute of Indianapolis at this afternoon reception in ... to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014