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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... no idea what I'm going to do, but medicine is definitely a possibility ... 've heard about MIT--I thought, as you say, that it was a really collaborative

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  is very helpful to us to have you write in your scores in a way that ... Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my ... in either order. One related question is, what if I plan to take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  that is happening in the philippines too, even now. and yeah, sure, i ... spent it alone. which, to be honest, isn't that much of a change of what i ... get that done soon, i guess. since making my last post a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  optimization. I live in East Campus with a ginger cat named Reese, who takes his REM a lot more seriously than I do. Sometimes, he relinquishes his ... were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  I've been in. Probably a third of it is grad students, and while 9 is ... well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... 5.112, the intro chemistry for masochists class that I took as a first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  ’ll have a lot more energy to enjoy what I do. I hope that this also keeps ... a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the ... enjoy it as much as I do! It has hit me that I have officially

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  doing that. I also wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the next ... responded, "Hard to say because I have so many flaws." That's a self ... barely exercise, and also my time management is a mess, and maybe I should

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  on less than $20 a week. That is a true story. When I got back to ... ) Haha, that Ben is a giant gossip. Adam and I haven't done the whole knee ... everyone that in India the courses I'm doing right now are very advanced as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel ... one application in particular that I poured my heart into - I wrote nine ... with friends. In the end, I didn't get a nomination spot - and for about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  started that spark. But in the life that I have lived, science fair is what ... than others. If there is any such life experience that’s had a lasting ... models in hand. I’m walking around today too. In Cambridge. With a backpack

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

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  question multiple times, something i noticed a professor of mine doing in a ... class that you may or may not be invested in is even tougher. i've been ... . i skimmed through many iterations of "a pleasure to have in class" and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  'm only doing all of these things in the first place is because i care about ... friends. and i only have so many hours in a weekend. and then. then there ... problem sets i have to do each week, and that's just, yes, that's the things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  chill. Today is the first February 14th in years that I haven’t spent ... . She had a good point. I considered texting Mike, “Yes, let’s do it! I ... plausible deniability of “I thought this was just a friend hangout!” But that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  ’t forgotten me, but here’s a quick review: I majored in physics and graduated in June. I’m currently on a one-year Fulbright Scholarship in Germany. After ... can do any of that, I need to learn some German. Fulbright agrees, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job ... that because this is a personal instinct and not one that is in any way

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well ... . '16 and I are making a bean casserole dish that is supposed to be really ... .  All that is left is the national exam, which I am taking within the next

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to ... over a button-up Oxford shirt tucked in neatly, so I did admittedly feel a little self-conscious all day. But hey, that's what Halloween is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  do this in reverse order I get easily discouraged when a problem is ... Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... . I work best in 2-hour intervals, preferably there is a change of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  ones did, in the sense that I’ve had to do much more struggling and ... . Finally, a big change is that everything is proof-based (as I write this, I ... expectation that it will be applicable in any way. I recently had to teach a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  found out that I'll be spending the next year as a research assistant at ... , even if only for a year. In the three years I have worked in this office ... all of the digital things that I do? Do not be afraid. We have hired on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012