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  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  not being in a music department We went to an art school for 9th and 10 ... concert date. We already had our eyes on our second high school for a while ... , the SAT is good for something after all! Just as a side note, both of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  ! 18.125 is Measure Theory--it's a grad math course with a reputation for ... Climbing that I failed to wake up for. I ended up going to see a talk by the ... -person) family dinner for Chinese New Year! We recently had a new addition

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... unrestricted elective credit for a 5 on any humanities AP exam except Studio Art ... , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  of ourselves for finding you. Second, it was a celebration of simply ... compounded - the arrival of Spring coincided with CPW, a weekend that is (for ... colleagues currently use. A big goal for the coming year is to expand the blog

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  create a separate recommendations account for this, in addition to your My ... You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman ... App – and our application is only available at MyMIT. Here are a

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  CourseWare. I did a few lessons before stopping to have time to study for the SAT ... reminded me a lot of GameMaker. Also, my dad got me my first Arduino kit for ... website and CSS to style it. I made a template for my own website and for my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as ... give you a little background. As part of the GIRs (short for General ... physics class and gives it a uniquely MIT twist called TEAL, which works for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars ... good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to ... will work for me. I'm not a big google calendar user, unlike some people

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Morality. It’s a very “MIT” class, counting for both my Philosophy and ... wearing a “pi,” a “square root,” and a chemical structure for the scent of ... won a Pulitzer, for example). I usually explain that MIT Political

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class ... ; sometimes we go for dinner and a movie, sometimes for a fraternity party, and ... /coffee/coke/caffeine/speed/whatever in the dorms? Haha, I'd say that's about average for a freshman pset

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  anything particularly related to my major--in fact, my proposal for a mini ... ’s home by myself. A subway is a subway, the hardest part (for me) is simply ... truly a foreigner. For one thing, I’ve been to those places so many times

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  bedsheets in 351. I stayed in that bed for days at a time during my first IAP ... of a sentence was all it took. For much of my life, I’ve felt this way ... ’ve learned to keep moving. Sometimes I still need to cry for a few hours. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  mulled over the problem for a while, keeping an open ear to the projects of ... in Ghana--a research institute of sorts, for younger students. He ... Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3 ...   As I began to better understand what it means for a place to be ... Trader Joe’s or Shaw’s, some picked up for free at a random event on campus

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  installation. For the blogs, I wanted to go into a little more detail on the ... was also working on a lighting project for the new MBTA headhouse ... visiting MIT for the first time —  a Cambridge community member, or a high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my ... some god punishing me for being a bad person. Anyway, in these past 5 ... job hunt for fall co-ops. So...it's a lot. But I think in some way it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  to MIT and on a spur of the moment deal, tried out for an acapella ... for beginners. Not only do they work to put on a big show each semester ... you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  .003) → Rank D This was a tough semester for me, especially because I broke my ... Engineer (2.76) → Rank C Built a prototype of a highway litter cleaner for a ... . D-Lab: Design for Scale (2.279) → Rank C D-Lab! Built a prototype of a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  [annotation note="For a year, we lived a 4.5 minute bike ride away from each ... for more than a few weeks at a time. I don’t know if I ever felt like I ... (already very generous for a 23 year old) salary. And in that moment, I found

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about ... I'm happy with. I don't have a lot to show for my interest in AI other ... faith in yourself. That's hard for me. I like to say that I'm a realist

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022