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  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where ... - "College is a business. MIT admissions do not determine your success in life ... believe that wherever you find yourself in the fall is a place you can make

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  virtual, and one is a physical robot. Basically, what I was saying in that ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... thing about a virtual conference is that I wasn't fully committed to it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  what I’m doing.” In other words, I’ve realized that Imposter Syndrome is ... .org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course ... that I didn't belong here.  In my second semester, I struggled a lot with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Court. I was sad because there was a chance that this wouldn't be my life ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I ... here resulted in the lowest grade I've ever gotten. Doing preliminary

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... still have half a problem set to do, it’s nice to know that the weekend is ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a ... years. I think I also knew that this is a pretty big deal; I expected that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  in tandem, like a hot potato. I talk to people that I have not seen ... banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... on the stage, a girl changes into a dress and back into a t-shirt. I do

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  that what you choose is a lot less important than that you are confident ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  must be a manifestation of Eve’s Original Sin. I think that Pullman is ... partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... thermodynamics in a single night. Of course, no one is actually like that. In ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these ... that I wanted something different. In this past blog, I wrote that the ... something different, and I didn't know what to do. In the end, I figured it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  work like that. Truth is, I did just fine. I got A's in 8.022 and 18 ... for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... throw in a couple of pictures. Since that is my job. These are some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... abdomen that this one is most likely a female. They live for 3 months to 2 ... with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  that were in my eyes, I counted every possible point against me: a 690 on ... talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I ... freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world ... ’t work, or is inefficient. Maybe you spend a lot of time doing problems you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  all of the things that are different.  Back in 2013, I was a science ... after that trip. I know that MIT was in my mind at least a little bit ... ’d decided that I didn’t want to do biology/become a doctor, like my older

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  are sad In its place is CP✱, a sort of CPW-turned-virtual, that ... that the gay heart is now active in my chest the gay heart is a tool to ... about it all. it's just what is known as math complexity i believe that a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to ... middle school, but I figured that if Johnny Tsunami could do it, then it ... thinks I lost my vision forever. Now, I realize that a certain stereotype

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  did do afterward that I consider a mistake, though, is not owning my ... you down in a big way—although that happens—but doing difficult ... I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put ... in the lab full-time doing research. Eventually I'll finish the ... .) Things are going well in the lab, although I'm breeding a lot of mice right

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008