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  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... , I remember being average was "BAD" in high school because you needed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video cam while the chat room explodes with questions. I’m scribbling notes in ... thought you once had that you can no longer grasp. I will never have REX

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent ... took everything in me not to add to my schedule.  Above all else, I love ... in LA and got back just the day before the first day of classes. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... away in the Kavli Center for Astrophysics (Bldg 37) on Vassar Street. I ... again, and it rained on me in my tshirt as I crossed Mass Ave but that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... in the tagline, the fight's begun but not yet won, and I'd rather blog ... thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  in high school and i want to learn more about how i can get admitted ... On to the questions... Arvind wrote, "'One more favour please', can I ... his reading applications in the four years I've worked in the office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter ... details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ... semester, in one of my many existential crises, I started to think seriously

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues ... that I can understand later when I'm cramming studying the night before ... I'm taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  can’t get jobs at career fairs. I can’t emphasize this enough: this ... . Disclaimer: most of these people were working in Computer Science—but I also ... programming classes, but I’d never worked in a tech company before. But by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  I can't believe it. It's been a whole year. An entire year. They ... with comments. I'll have a couple more entries (gosh, I'm overdue) in ... . I hung around the Infinite today and caught Ben and Matt as they were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks ... as I possibly can before I become otherwise occupied with classes and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life I can consider true friends. There are those people in your life that ... something like “haha that was honestly as hot as MIT will be in December, I am

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been in that half several times now, and i'm lucky that i've never really ... i can see how far others get when they push off and glide, or see how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the ... among them, then all I can say is that MIT is just another place. If it is ... worked out okay. In 2014, we denied another student, whom I'll call CT. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  me over Zoom about their wild college days. I can’t wait to see them in ... masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that surprising, given that I’ve only lived in Tucson half the year. My cousins

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  can send in our January scores, I would like to take the SAT again. I ... that the earliest I can start is in August? (I like to get things done ... be taken" date. Who do I need to contact in order to change it so my

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... people can be unicorns too. not in the business sense of the word, since ... because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this ... important as well. After rush, I settled in my dorm pretty quickly and got to ... important. The curriculum is different in my country. I haven’t done AP

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  a pset-test-class kind of way. More in a let-me-absorb-as-much-of-this-place-as-I-can-before-I-leave kind of way. In three short months, I'll be graduating...can't believe it ... finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and ... me I’m fine with a C in their class. Back in high school, I was on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015