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• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow snow snow. I'm wearing bright colors so if I get caught in a snow drift someone will…

  

  going to drown in snow on my way to class. If I never post again, you now ... An email I just sent out to my sorority: from: Shannon to: Theta date: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM subject: Snow snow snow. So I'm from West

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some ... that I would feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of STEM in comparison ... figured I would try recruitment just in case. Recruitment week is a lot of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  I would, but perhaps the same life lesson can hit you in waves, each ... lungs wheezed for air, someday I would reach that place, the place where it was finally enough, and I would be at peace knowing that I could

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  . I received an email in my inbox that read: yesterday was someone ... campus, I finally found my present hidden in a dryer in the Baker laundry ... So on Sunday, I turned 20. I am now OLD. Now since I have a summer

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high-school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks ... . So if I wasn't in my dorm room, exploring Harvard Square, or secretly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in ... old, i live in random hall, and i. am. exhausted. these past two weeks ... 'd probably be under "it's complicated." i first visited mit back in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... causing chaos in society. Excerpt from Jerusalem by William Blake I turn my ... the issues it addresses. In his words, “I thought it might resonate with

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018