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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of ... 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning 6.042 Mathematics for ... group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... make it happen. So Dave uttered the words every geek wants to hear (for ... working out for them. And they say they haven't really been able to use it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world ... would hear statements like “it is so much easier for people like you to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  saw but didn't manage to ask them for a photo (with permission) Have a ... manifesting for you all"](and also a huge congrats to those of you who have ... close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  to go mountain climbing. This example works for many, but clearly not ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for ... for me to go.’ While the answer sufficed through its cynicism, a kind of ... ’s what I’ll do for you, I’ll add hot water to the cup, then pour espresso

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  Shooting for Top Gun: Aiming to Arm Students with Life Skills for College and ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical ... pursue internships; one of my fellow panelists took a semester to work for ... thought it’d be best for them to go elsewhere for a bit. Neither of these

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for ... decision. remind yourself to breathe and ground yourself, even if just for a ... [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  to water will be safer for these children. People regularly die digging ... problems are solved mainly for those living nearest to the well, and the ... which water sources are likely to be inadvertent drains for other sources

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours. On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  mattering. snowballs and shuttle buses and moments to save for nostalgia. at ... , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  enough cookies for every member of the MIT community to have one—undergrads and grad students alike! It is enough for every EC resident to eat over ... cookies than East Campus had room for... so we brought them around to places

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . SIPB sells the juice to ESP in exchange for fresh souls, which they keep ... to an email sent to eecs-jobs-announce looking for a “technical ... suffered this stoically for years, begins to weep. Her tears are acid. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  the final projects. Thanks again to everyone who stuck with me for the ... /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class ... , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus ... first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to take, since my schedule for senior year is already so packed ... most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... school term. At Cambridge, it’s extremely rare for undergraduates to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012