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  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  . Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and energy. In the beginning of freshman year, I was having a lot of trouble

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what's been ... opportunities specifically in DC, but more for a dedicated living space away from ... 13th, but in a funny sitcom-like manner, his house ended up flooding

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on LinkedIn. My pageviews are down 80% from last week, when they peaked at an ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  marathon today because I've been lying around in bed feeling pathetic and ... learning about viruses and other types of infectious disease in 7 ... biology major, and the classes I've learned them in: 1. When you have a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  とうございます！） So I'm in Japan this IAP! Last IAP, I spent it in Madrid, with MIT ... in Tokyo, refining my Japanese skills. Unfortunately, because MIT does ... it. >"< Last IAP, we had 3 hours of class everyday in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  students to get in without AP classes etc. My school does not offer AP ... . Apologies. ------------------------------------- Aziz wrote: "If i'm living in ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... . JOHN: We’re both heading over there in a few minutes. Gonna be dope. A ... costumes? The flyers didn’t really elaborate on— FRANK AND JOHN: (in unison

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  at their own universities—student populations filled with clout ... exist in droves—McKinsey information sessions are packed full, pre ... time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... people around you, often in significant and long-lasting ways how do people in these areas reconcile “not being able to change other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7 ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... back next February. More on all that later, though. Because in the past

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 ... of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and ... success. In a span of a few weeks, a group of around 300 people spent over a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... Stud2 (the floor with the food court) to help fix my broken code. In the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  awesome science classes that MIT offers. How do people not majoring in the ... The fourth in a series... With a week until the May 1st postmark ... truck in front of Lobby 7; it's cheap and convenient, and really hits the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  building are in Helvetica. So is the "ACCESS RESTRICTED" poster. The poster to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in Calibri. For the rightmost poster, the top half is also in Calibri. Then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  and audience. My teacher clarified that I was not in trouble because ... , never let my education get in the way of my learning.   Love you ... because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see" atomic hydrogen out in space, astronomers look for its signature: radiation ... wavelengths?!" you ask. A fine question. In fact - one might say that it's a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never written these before. I’ve been thinking about the things I’ve done in the ... to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  never hit that kind of mileage before. In Chinese, we say "people beyond ... , but arbitrarily it was a women's sport in our school, while the men did ... folks like me in the middle distances freed up the shorter distances for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025