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• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  strict routine, and living with thousands of others."]this school ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  'm writing this after finishing my third and final CP* event, which was some of ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and ... ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  . Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and ... writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, "What's quizbowl?" So of ... the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  A live DJ. 1000+ sparkly pompoms. One of the biggest events of the ... audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... !) [annotation note="photos are the bane of my existence. i fear i may have to give

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom ... picture of my first banana plant, but now I have three or four, in my ... by volume. Earlier in the year, as part of a series of talks on things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  hours designing art; hundreds of posters and postcards, and hundreds upon ... the time, so i knew most of the basics. the cuer’s voice tells us the ... , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  everything went my way. I did have a lot of hardships in both the school of MIT and the school of life. But I never stopped moving forward. That's how ... making any of that happen because it was something that future me would

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  University School of Medicine have found that the quarter to half of dyslexic ... or graduate school, when the length and difficulty of assigned readings ... enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  expected to feel some amount of relief with the ending of the school year. I ... . I used to hate the last day of the school year, almost more than I ... bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take ... new school year with more energy and more wisdom. An opportunity came

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  . For all of you medical school hopefuls (yes, the admissions process ... amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one back. I assume that most of you have taken the SATs and that you studied

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  , which I naively crammed into the Lagrangian instead of kickin' it old-school ... impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... building up of a structure. Catamorphism: the consumption of a structure ... Blasters None of this tame nonsense! Use nerf darts to skip your opponent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  those of you who do not know me, my name is Cami and I graduated MIT in ... sake of the blogposts. I was known on the blogs for having a lot of ... moments of my life. I actually look back at my blogs pretty often - then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... one thing now, you will be alive in 2016 -- breathing that sigh of ... excitement of getting into MIT hasn't totally worn off yet. What's that? You

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying ... right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g g e d him ... ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language ... Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020