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• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  what I would double in—mit only assigns majors at the end of the first ... pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  tomorrow! I promise! You can hold me to that. It would tear my soul in twain ... and I fell over in shock. The ninja police did nothing to rescue me ... little paint in my hair, but that's okay, I'll just match Levi from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math Level IIC and Physics in SAT II, will that over-ride my bad SAT I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  received them?" I would have them sent again, or faxed in to our office, if ... . ------------------------------------- cujoe169 wrote "If i wanted to send in a recording, but it would be very ... the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  absolutely suck at. I would often miss the ball right in front of me, but by ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772 ... , chugging milk, and dying of heat in the middle of winter. I started on the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to ... Pirate Certificate – 25% complete. In my defense, I'm really trying to take

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional ... that I got it. So what do you do when you're sick in college? Honestly ... that day, and went back to bed. I hoped that I would wake up refreshed

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  knew would be due in a few days. I got my forms signed, chatted with the ... adventures in Italy (which I still haven't told you about, man I'm bad at this ... -Spain) but she was in a meeting. On my way to my advisor's office I waved to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle school (before getting too busy in high school), so I took the Advanced ... I started to doubt my plan to major in 6. But now that I'm coding

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to ... before. As far as the most popular sports, I personally would have to say

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  class in high school! This… is unimaginable, what else would I be?? I got ... , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing ... fascinating, I somehow felt like I was missing something - biology, in its pure

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... Oshima (Director of the Artist-in-Residence Program), and I went to the MFA ... Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Best from staff

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  in every math class I took. Although my high school was incredibly ... for the prestige), and would often belittle me and make me feel dumb in ... say, I stopped taking honors STEM courses. In fact, in my senior year, I

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  and our teachers would nominate select students to participate. I didn ... mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  still in Boston. To their third objection, I smugly pointed out that ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  Hi! I'm Qiaochu Yuan. That's "chow-chew," as in ... write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... lot about it, too. I'm interested in physics, cognitive science and

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  be going my way. Case in point number 1: As I was returning to Boston ... whatnot. Nonetheless, what are the odds? Case in point number 2: I was ... me yet. If I kept going, I would beat him to class but he would see me

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  honesty I don’t think I would have noticed my school's lack in drive if I ... high school. In fact I loved my high school. No matter where I went or ... early morning emails telling me where I might have potential flaws in my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... myself in having the best friends in the world. This semester, I felt a cold and sobering moment as I sat in my friend's dorm room in the late

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  watched it during a phase in my life where I truly believed that all art had ... ." Comedy and calamity ensue. I would provide you more context, but ... , Nicole and I started a tradition of turning off all the lights in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022