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• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking ... celebrations, like FINALLY getting to write at the aggie and working on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really close to campus, actually. Like, so close that I get this breathtaking ... schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  accustomed to all sorts of odd situations in lab, but it took a while to get ... . That's about all the backstory you need. Also, nice to meet you!) You would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  want to study when I get there however I feel an overwhelming amount of ... 's blog. Stuyvesant asked further, "what sort of a GPA do you need to get ... works. To directly answer your question: we hope that you'll get mostly As

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to ... around the courtyard and running around on the castle walls. I tried to get ... I possibly can. It felt like a maze that was impossible to get lost in

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  STARS’ partner colleges get together to host a virtual college fair for ... STARS (Small-Town and Rural Student) Ambassadors, to give you a quick recap of everything we’ve been up to this past year. Spoiler alert: it

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  hurt like hell.  So I proceeded to get a tattoo and then party until 3 ... to get our final events together before I had to leave on Saturday ... sense, I guess; I DID manage to cram two months worth of memories into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  to even be at this point. To even get to be in the shoes to say that ... ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... emptiness to be emanating from such a small human being. We had just stepped

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  that most people never get to the good stuff! Most of what gets taught in ... As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew ... the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  , and then go home and have dinner afterwards. I also elected to get paid ... United Methodist Church in Tallahassee, Florida, began as an effort to provide repairs and basic necessities to homes of impoverished families in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  joints. Then, we had to hook up the joints to a user interface to get them ... , namely toon shading, outlines, and hatching. Toon shading is a way to get ... is a way to get a model to look as though it was drawn with hatch marks

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  closure to the situation, he will never get that. His father summarizes it ... able to come up with methods and ways so that he doesn't get burned and ... never forces Finn and Flame Princess to get back together again. Instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  need to get above a 75 (the C- cut off) to pass. 6.009 I will ... wasn't possible for me to get an A in this class, so I left it on PNR to ... quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , where I’ll get to talk to EC alumni and eat free pad thai. And afterwards ... that I can tailor them to my needs. I might also get a minor in ... . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... need to get it through the limited working/short-term memory. There, we ... , according to Prof Mahajan, the rule of thumb is: if you get a quadratic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  classes to get into an in-state school. Believe it or not, AP mania hasn ... interesting way to get my county-required humanities credit than the school ... ran 45 miles a week to get in shape for cross-country. I swam and dove

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The ... of the blogs know, I prefer to bike to work anyway, and the MBTA gets ... one too. If you're a student with too much food, you get to give it away

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  some notes for a poem I’m planning to write when I get back, just in time ... because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end-of-internship presentation to give, and my mentor had invited 30 people.   We have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... get a job to help pay for school, on top of doing a lot of great things ... explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  really wanted to major in. Too many cool things at this school... how could ... concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A ... was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022