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  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that ... folder called "Old." Eek. In "Old," I found a folder named after my high ... apartment complex. With that in mind: To schedule my interview, I got in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Facebook that I clicked on while bored. But this is what I get out of ... wrapped in a Snuggie so that we look like an unwieldy, pregnant, fleece ... -inducing dream about carrots baking cakes in the interim. And then I decide that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to do a "Web Lab" for 10.302: Transport Processes. What that means is we ... graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  , you do the math. ;) I work directly with a postdoctoral associate in ... lab for two and a half years, I know what I'm doing in a technical sense ... zoogies observed that 4000 students is perhaps not a "small" school. I guess

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  score highly in critical reading as I had anticipated. Is there a way MIT ... I'm just going to have to accept that. Still, I could use a little ... 500th word. Will that happen to mine? If I have a really good 505-word

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  when semester classes aren't in session, and I agree. IAP is a much more ... ,000 views in four days. It's funny, I had thought that to garner views, my ... college for the first time. I haven't seen my room in a while, I'm much more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  , or both. Even so, I know that having time to do things that I like is a ... is a true gem in its entirety, but the three main points that Petey ... realized that I have finite time as a student, and in as much as I would like

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  , building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at ... . But people in the US do seem to care more about life. Perhaps this is ... , not many adults will do this. In this climate, drinking is regarded

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  standup is scheduled to be fifteen minutes long. 10:30 AM i came in a bit ... a month is back, and i pour myself a cup. for the first time in two ... explain any software term that might need a definition in an annotation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  i felt lost, that even though i was given a big list of what to do and ... packing for a flight that weekend, things have gone pretty well. i aced 6 ... suitcase with room to spare. last friday, i was informed that a friend i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  that I got it. So what do you do when you're sick in college? Honestly ... understanding, which is a fact I attribute to the MIT's culture. On the one hand ... sick hanging out with a sick friend and be unable to do that work. But on

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  realize what I was doing to myself. I noted the lesson learned: MIT is a ... in the sand. I walked to the Harvard Bridge with a friend to sink the ... something.” “You know you can do that, right?”  After a few other people

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next ... head held high. tick I’m a failure. I’m doing so much. And, in doing far

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  . I also did a lot of collaborative work and really appreciate that kind ... that I am beyond grateful for. But in some of these lows, I grappled with ... successfully after a while, choose to take in the things that bring color to my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  , while I've been making things in my spare time, we've also been getting a ... knitted fractal, or a computer program/app.   Q3) How do I submit my ... information? I have SO MUCH I want to share with you! A4) I am excited that you

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  (which is in Maine). Due to a variety of reasons (none of which, I promise ... That's truly a title that says "What should I use for a title?" How ... I am poor. That's right, the money I earned over the summer is

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  will figure out about me is that I’m a [annotation note="the colloquial ... people I know in [annotation note="a club that organises mit's largest ... our name, and my [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms, a class that is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  that was difficult and confusing. I remember staring in a mirror and ... is a terrible pit of fear that it is not going to work, but I ... with such excitement that I can't help but be excited, too. In high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ]E_s[/latex] stored in a spring with a spring constant of [latex]k[/latex] that is ... that is tau, alongside a few anecdotes about tau, MIT, and myself c ... circles as circle noun: a shape that is made of of the set of all points

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  Writing Autobiography. We read a lot of things in that class, and here are ... that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a ... !” Educated (100k words). We had to do a book review for the class, and I chose

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019