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• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  chrismahanakwanzucollegeappska everyone! //authors note: ensuring permissions for photos ... kicking back at my bench space--newly unwrapped box of pipette tips in hand ... ; Since I'm still here for a few days, my flexible family is just

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  got me to fall in love with the idea of being an MIT student. 4 years ... 'd predicated a lot of my dreams for my future self on the premise of getting an ... -school self had been so in love with the idea of being an MIT student, so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  below an A or a B in your life. And though I know nothing I can say will ... Bee and have already been first author on a paper in a major science ... wrote my mom a poem for Mother's Day and I only made a phone call. She

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  lot of pressure at MIT. I heard that if you get Cs for two semesters in ... system of MIT (since she's an EC in Taipei - I met her!). She says that ... personal essay?" Janet: "I was an average student in high school, but I think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... ="Intro to Computer Science and Programming in Python. Runs for one quarter"]6 ... other classes with it. Requested an extension for my final paper because

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  Paterno made things possible for my friends and fellow students in an ... ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are ... in State College represents a moral coming of age, an iconic American

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  in the picture!?), reality hit for the first time. In just seven months ... grown up with for the past seven years will go different ways. In seven ... come together and revel in the pride we felt for one another. Honestly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... perhaps I wanted to do an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) to ... knowledge test in Oregon to qualify for a new permit. However, due to COVID

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard ... .S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University (GPA 3.9/4.0) -an M ... Rhodes Scholar -an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT (May 1998) -an M

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  -Nehisi Coates, who writes for the Atlantic - which in the past year became my new ... sophomore who is still unsure what course to major in. But the reality is not quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  definitely could’ve appreciated more grade transparency in this class. As an ... ="attachment_112262" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] an assignment for 21W.744 ... Disordered Cosmos] - This is an advising seminar I participated in as an

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  -- to listen to, though, not to actually dance to. The No. 5 in G has an ... ; in contrast, Bach's piece was intended for keyboard pedagogy. Finally ... 'll call a lab frame, or Frame S. And we can measure the time it takes for an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  ranked #37 in the world for its health system (according to the World ... ! P.P.S. An example of Brokaw in action: ... Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  fact that they traveled to Vegas and got in trouble with the authorities ... 't make too much sense for an express train to go there instead of Alewife ... , are doing, actually). Ben says he got an A in the course. If Paul does

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  is not an activist campus in the sense of protests and picket signs and riots, but it is a place where students believe in working for change in ... say? Andy asked about there being only one line for an SAT I score on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  thought I was going to be an author and I really loved worldbuilding and ... for 'binging copious amounts of Dungeons and Dragons content.' I ... and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  .00, 6.009, and 6.031 for. And was it worth it? Definitely! In this class ... like an outsider in the class since I just haven't played video games in ... project, which is to make an educational game for middle-high school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  here as an artist. For me, because I am interested in purely art in ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  back hurts in the same way it always has I’ll write an autobiography ... I'm not typically one for year-end reflections or goals, mostly ... believe in what Lorde has said about how people don't change day-to-day or

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  from the Netherlands gave me in a hostel in Spain, but that was an ... other one about Vikings that I had to read because I was quarantined in an ... , and all in all, I wasn’t sure why my favorite authors seemed to worship

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020