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  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  (oh look, she's being gay again), and a few others that I can't recall ... wanted to teach about Love is that it was my primary game framework in both middle school and high school! While I didn't do anything worth while in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  recommendation that you don't want to do a little presentation? I said sure. And ... in a place that I visit maybe twice a year. Nonetheless, I read up on ... UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  MIT competitive? As said in my last answer, no. I do not think MIT is ... livestream I do which is: You're going to struggle in your transition to MIT ... vulnerable in times of hardship and difficulty. Which I think is a very, very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  MIT is hard. Seriously. That's why we have study breaks. I know that ... pset all by myself. Doing psets alone is torture. For me, anyway. I know some people who hate doing the work in groups, which is fine for them

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  in college, I never took a visual arts class, despite looking through ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a picture book or a graphic novel or something in that nature started

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  't know if MIT has a wind tunnel, but if they do, I want to put bikes in ... campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... the hardest thing is which of them to explore. [...] We do things in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  In my last entry, I mentioned that I had a bunch of things I wanted to do before I graduate and one was to get through this list ... significance to me, because that's actually where I became a U.S. citizen :) In

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... and families in order to get a better education, so that my siblings and ... is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... : One thing we are trying to do is dispel the myth that a curriculum ... years. I hope this entry goes a small way in helping to reduce that stress

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  sure there is a single "right" answer to that question. I wish I could ... blogs, I hope you realize that admissions is more than just a job for ... , really, this is not the end of the world. I wish I could tell you all that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up ... destination I was shown was quickly qualified by the fact that, had I arrived in ... small town living, the recurring bit I’ve landed on is that, at the very

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  people that used to know me best. Around this time 3 years ago, I was a ... , I've started to see these years in a new light. I'm starting to feel ... write this, I found myself rehashing a perspective that I hadn't updated

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  classmate, "pissed off." When I do talk, it's in a monotone that's deeper than ... (@dasharez0ne this is a credit not a plug) that made me decide to write this ... I could be a normal person. Some people do actually have this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well.) Friday seems so long ago that I barely remember it at all. I know for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  progress in the gym is going to slip away. But I am most definitely in a ... found a metric that determined how acceptably fit I was and stuck with it ... the weaker side, how at the age of 7 I couldn't do a proper pushup or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  , in a sense, they're both oversold—the truth, I think, is unsatisfying ... regret how I spent my undergrad, but rather that it is a modality of living ... and under stress, that is, when you need to make the decision to quit. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  just got a lovely writeup in Technology Review. When I started that draft ... 's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted ... , fine, I'll explain. Once a year, And that's where I stopped my draft, mid

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  in general, though, is that it suffers from a lack of variety - no ... top of a few weeks in therapy, so I'm letting this entry make its debut ... course 9? Do you like the number 9? In reverse order: I like the number 9

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  headstart in that regard. However, no transition is without a few roadblocks ... sure I didn't get consumed in extracurriculars. Doing everything that you ... to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007