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• Blog / Community Projects

  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 / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... in it with me, which is nice since it means I'll always have someone to study with. I've had some interest in genetics since I was a kid. The one

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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 Human

  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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  Arts] If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college, you may be surprised by the wide range and high quality ... students who are interested in MIT's faculty-led ensembles such as the MIT

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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