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  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... like being fitted with a new pair of arms. The flash went off constantly ... . A lot of color adjustment makes for crappy close-ups, and the white

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

   podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title/framing of the episode, which was just posted, is "What Kinds Of Students Does ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... meters. Later, I realized that this is where the coach put all of the ... in all of HS track was to scrape by and qualify for the away meets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  ? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning ... with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was ... packets so i could make it myself.) i try to emulate the ghosts of my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters, before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole musical. expect a bad ending. hermes tells us this in one of the most upbeat

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as ... , but don’t overplan. CPW was one of the most memorable weekends of my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  that were too high in quality), eventually, I came up with the idea of ... the beginning... 9/8/21 - First Day of the Semester After all the pre-semester fun, the time had finally risen for all of us students to return to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of ... 's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  this post since I feel like I didn't accomplish many of the resolutions I ... fit over the summer, and I've kind of fallen out of habit now that our apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  .” On the content of essays: someone has probably said to you, “Write ... enough at it to really love it, but then the feelings of ~*~passion~*~ might be gone. Is it passion if you are still in the middle of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... from our house. It was some of the tastiest pho I've ever had. I found ... do think Hawai'i changed that and made me a bit more fond of the whole

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... community college in which we literally took turns snoring away in the back of ... at the end of the hall. I even tried to make more trash just so I could

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... notes that are still on the board from the part of lecture I missed. I try ... thinking of the decent proportion of the 200-something 6.005 students I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet ... calc) with me one time my freshman year. The only thing she got out of it ... of the magnificent shopping opportunities in Boston -- the Pru, Newbury

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... if you just want the gist of it, it's because MIT is awesome. And because of the MISTI program, also awesome. Hokay, so I took 550 pictures

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  the NSA and the tour guide I had was really uptight and that kind of ... they should put on the team, and one of the tests was themed Anatomy & ... senior year of high school. Additionally, the high school I went to had

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  affected by one of the hurricanes or by the earthquake in south Asia, I wish ... list of activities but an explanation to the activities listed on the ... leaves me with English I, II, and IV at the end of my junior year (For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a ... of reading and a lot of internet. I read the MIT website, I read the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the ... importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal ... . My friend (and one of my favorite people) Caroline M. '18 wrote the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018