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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  home a happy 2011; I would’ve wished them in person – except I’m in India ... why; according to the anesthesiologist, I curled myself up in the fetal ... spells. Thank goodness: two in one day would just be embarrassing. Only 1

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... . For the first time in a long time, I let a friend see me cry - not ... often. Believing in one’s own infallibility is a dangerous drug. I’m far

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  even in my quiet quarantined home. Tears, anger, frustration… I had been ... ” violence that would ensue had these men been anything but white. I couldn ... , I will for sure be in this same position sooner rather than later. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... , everything would be TERRIBLE and I would be SCREWED. But that didn’t happen ... the Charles river. If you ever find yourself on campus, I would highly

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us ... kitchen in the process. Nevertheless, I’m actually incredibly impressed by ... It is Thursday, November 23rd. Or well, it is as I’m writing this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• 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 / 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 / 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