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• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... in the deep pool! But alas. Covid struck before I got to take one final ... series that I started watching way back in my senior year of high school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I ... true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don ... be calling. At the time, I was feeling incredibly stressed and lost in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  classmates. In fact, the only thing in school I have ever been “naturally” good ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at ... sad about my failures in high school, and I found out there are tons and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  as long as i can remember, yet i never really had time for it in high ... in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). I started blogging in the summer of 2005. First of all, I’m running the Boston Marathon in April! I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I ... can do anything I want and she is powerless to stop me, I still think ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  earlier in the semester I had asked my mom if I should spend the extra money ... a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the ... , cramming in the few details I wanted (and needed) to remember. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  . I hope that, by the end of this year, I can find definitive peace in ... I try and tell myself that I've overcome imposter syndrome, and, in some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  senioritis in high school, but i think i have it now. i can think of many ... enough to enjoy. now that i'm back in school i can feel how different it ... interesting book, but i'm more interested in the categorical parts of the class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  in July -- just saying I think that's all -- hopefully, we'll hear ... Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Last year, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  We prefer that students use our MIT application portal detailed in our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic ... -specific recommendation form. On the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... regrade requests and responses like? I took two classes in Fall 2019 for ... lot of topics in math which I hadn't encountered before. I also made

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  feel to be back in the city m: kinda weird it's nice because i love nyc ... : boston/cambridge/mit really does feel like home right now because in my mind that's where i'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to ... 't missed an episode ever and this is season 4. 6) I can't believe I'm going to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you can in, say, a coding interview. Increasingly, I feel the weight of ... be quick to support others however I can.  In-between all that, I ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  in order to amplify the correct fragment I'm interested in, I can run ... When I tell people that I'm majoring in Biology, they typically ... series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  not several thousand feet in the air staring through a camera when I ... ;   This was the first major landmark I recognized once I was in the ... strange dorm I'll be having an awesome summer in.     And

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Tour Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand.

  

  Called Quest Hello All! As you can see I'm taking the fight to the people! In the last few weeks I had MIT Central meetings in Washington, DC ... Manhattan (NY, not Kansas). Additionally, I've visited high schools in Detroit

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college ... any effort whatsoever (yes, i did go fratting in pajamas more than once ... practicing daily dialogues on the way to Chinese class i took Chinese II in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  course they do; but unlike in a class, where I can always go to office ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... .[/annotation]My parents and I were in SoCal last March Break (to visit my four-year-old twin

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019