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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  .112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he ... all of Thanksgiving with these three; I'm going to exhaust the gloating ... on the other side of Thanksgiving; a couple sleepless nights in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  was supposed to be may 31, but because of the situation, we could (again ... frozen is one of the films i can remember the animation well enough to comment that the animation of the sequel was noticeably better. i guess i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  experiences with the rest of us upperclassmen. We value you as members of our ... why I expected the process of finding my place in a completely foreign ... growth that has made me the version of myself I am proud to be today

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We ... parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am – Borderline Exec meeting to plan for our first general body meeting of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... the goal. If taking 66 units of classes and sleeping every night was ... the power of hundreds of strangers potentially reading this and placing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the ... metal cylinder with a cluster of tubes running out of it. Nothing like the ... anniversary of modern quantum mechanics – and the stars have aligned in every

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  bound up with the concern that not being at the top of the class will ... just for the sheer joy of it -- the better my grades became. I don ... I would have still felt like I needed to be at the top of the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years ... College (Jan. 6), RPI (Jan. 1), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 1). For ... the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... exercise...) As we learn, the impressive-looking parts of parkour have ... , a version of multivariable calculus that starts in the fall and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  deferred, you are one of the applicants who are going to be reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action. A lot of MIT students, past and present, were initially deferred; you can read about a few of them here, here

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  "soda". Some people said "pop" (I'm still unclear on what region of the ... prison system in Georgia and the benefits of rehabilitation, and the Chairman of the Georgia Department of Corrections read it (and my age with it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the ... post, I’ll first cover some of the things I did and then present some

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  'm spending my free time playing a lot of monster train. actually that's the ... chat for emails. as the name suggests, it's a list of emails that an ... have the emails of alyssa and ben. and then an email sent to example

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  i was going to write a post about Thanksgiving and Drop Date and not dropping 18.02, but it was boring. So I deleted it. Don't complain; I've spared you the trouble of reading something you really wouldn't have wanted

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... on top of this.   January is the last testing date that can ... interview is not a required part of the application (and students whose

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... point of the above, but this was such an important and new experience. Not only did I learn to live alone in all the practical senses of the word

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... the latest issue of Blender magazine (Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley in the ... discussion that may sound all too familiar to regular readers of the blogs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at ... be pretty rough for me. To take the classes I wanted, I sort of had to ... didn’t feel like I would dislike the content of 2.001 that much. I wouldn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the prehistoric year of 2015 when college decisions were delivered not through the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... the agonizingly stressful yet undoubtedly invaluable process of ... sits on the side with a pile of green things in front of her. She's very

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011