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• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  meeting you! In fact, they are so excited to meet you that we would like to ... and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam ... which I’ve called home the past 12 years. Growing up in California, I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also ... in the summer. baker isn’t east campus, but it’s more than i feel like ... time in my three years of joining code jam, i won a shirt. [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone ... baseball cards in my kindergarten days. I guess the whole point is MIT looks ... , and got H A's in my entire life. I applied and got into MIT. Someone

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... something about snow. Now, I saw snow for the first time in November 2013 ... in snow, thick white snow that looked like they would be so much fun to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt ... no idea what caused it (and still have no idea), but I assumed it would

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... unpredictable times in the evening. I’d immediately sit down to compose frantic ... success. I expected a bright solution. “Maybe it would be better if you took

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been very focused and not in a ... here. I stayed in Boston for June-July and then traveled and saw family ... optimization in language models. I met people and took in new media: I met

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  In my last post (which was way too long ago 😖), but I guess I should ... ! I never would have guessed. Even though, I still have a lot for work ... dropped 9.00. It was interesting, but I wasn't in the mood to write an essay

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into studio and not come out…till the wee hours of the morning. I think I recall ... – that’s how I function. Using a stool to press down on a drying foam

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  , winner of the Nobel Prize in 2001. I think I would have asked them to ... swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is ... EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  thought I would never apply to MIT because I thought I wouldn’t “fit in” to ... chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog ... the D.C. area. In retrospect, I should have just flown in last night and ... what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7 ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... myself with the strongest support system I could ever imagine in order to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  and a Next Exec meeting, and, every week, I would go in terrified and ... finishing it. Every time I've started it, I've gotten caught up in this ... blog I would've written during the semester, if I'd had time, so it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary ... cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it ... , because you’ll forget otherwise. In fact, just schedule time for things that

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

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  applicants: I feel your pain. In a perfect world, I would be an investigative ... final class for my Education (Course 11) concentration. Just in case, I ... of SOC-STD 98LH. In the end, I couldn't take Philosophy of Education

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  . Next year I'll be taking smaller, specialized classes in the major I ... together some random project or something. In high school, this was great. I ... at that. But in the interest of full disclosure to you guys, I should

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... the city I grew up in) and over 3,600 companies, including 82 of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  . There are two '09 bloggers (so far), and I'm one of them, so one would ... 't make school my reason for living. I came in with an existing, established ... has nothing to do with MIT, as most of the things in which I'm involved

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  taken, and the projects I've done in them.   21W.750: Experimental ... hospital and at home in New York. I had to miss my final classes for recovery ... nicely. Here I am all healthy and not in hospital scrubs: And here is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015