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  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull ... idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 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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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost. We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity.”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for ... med school and make negative $30,000 a year). While it doesn't seem like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... represent my decade of twenty-somethings (my least favorite phrase after "meat

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  . After a lifetime of being smart and good at school — the thing that had ... school at MIT ten times out of ten. I am a better, more thoughtful, more ... Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  Dear Class of 2010, This will be my last entry written specifically for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  weather, and frequent rainfall. The coming of the rains also signal the beginning of the academic year, as the Philippine school year starts in June ... shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  cousins will be graduating high school as well; many of the Class of 2015 ... The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... at the start of each term appealing to the school for their project to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  world of possibilities. In high school, I attended a talk that was ... going to graduate school. And although I know that there are plenty of ... 've left my copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics [annotation note="this is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  -month periods of school with four-month co-ops, always start working a few weeks ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... next morning. Yes, this is totally awesome. It reminds me of MIT. It also

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  familiarity. Cons: Safety and familiarity. I had spent all of high school ... exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  here, with an intended audience of high school students. (Feel free to ... 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

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever ... school was safer, even though I felt I really wanted to go into public health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014