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  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing ... fascinating, I somehow felt like I was missing something - biology, in its pure ... classes in the fall, I realized that I was heading in the wrong direction

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you ... . ------------------------------------- Dheeraj wrote: "Can i take the SAT in jan 2006? Will its scores be ... . Apologies. ------------------------------------- Aziz wrote: "If i'm living in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  most stylish professor I've had in my life. Not to mention his academic ... enough to teach an old dog a new trick, I'm sure I can teach you my ... Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  particular reason. In case you can't tell, I'm geeking out here, and loving ... a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  summer, back during Fall Career Fair in late September. I was feeling ... zero dollars and zero cents Fooooooood - what can I say, I’ve missed my ... you can bet I’m keeping sharp over the summer by racing sailboats with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... people the benefit of the doubt, as I'm sure we did in your case. hedwig ... definitely help in the cases when it is available. Aarthi wrote, "I think I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening to sad music, rolling the guilt i felt around and around in my head

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren ... meet on MIT's campus, but hopefully I'll see you around in the real world ... potential. I can't imagine that kind of one-on-one attention being too common

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  inexhaustible variety of life). Floating in Nostalgia   I honestly can ... the confetti traveled in both scenarios. As you can probably guess, I ... models in hand. I’m walking around today too. In Cambridge. With a backpack

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  organized with academic work, but I still can't gauge how much time everything ... , I was involved in student government, MURJ, Assassins' Guild, Medlinks ... commitments - in addition to blogging. Not to mention I had just joined a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  experience has been positive. i guess i lucked out, in a sense, when i have a somewhat good experience talking to my counselor. i first mentioned this in a ... , i don’t notice any pattern in when the thoughts come. when i wake up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  the personal pronoun “I” in proofs. After hours of absorbing the style ... influenced the class topics in profound ways. I enjoy my assignments, though ... weekly/monthly spike in deadlines, I get a continuous flow of work. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  can no longer be a part of “When people ask me why I live in ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you ... conviction to pull it off, but maybe i’ll come back to it in a few years

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  enough money in my wallet… “Please, is there anything I can do?” I asked ... ..."][/annotation] Like, seriously. Here’s the string of live-texts I put in my sorority ... plane So i might lose that luggage I look at her, tears in my eyes, and

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  three kinds of classes that I'm supposed to go to per week. In lectures ... function can be in the frequency or time domains depending on what you need to do. I have lecture twice a week. In recitations, a non

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  alternative vision, I'm happy too. Happier? Possibly. In this Universe, I can ... apply to MIT if…?” I’m not an expert in this matter, nor can I pretend to ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  to travel! (with the added benefit that you can escape January in Boston.) Last January, I took a Spanish conversation class in Madrid with ... each of the countries—I’ve put them on Google drive so you can check them

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  January at MIT can look like—I know I sure did :) Hi, I’m Heidi Z. ‘27, a ... intelligence)."]6 and 18[/annotation] at MIT! In high school, I loved browsing ... the spring semester, so I decided to change it up this year. In this

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  amazing resources can fix that. I could get all the extensions and that ... in the popular “who’s more hosed” game. And then senior year came. I ... can still love what I do, but MIT often destroys the spark of excitement

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022