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• 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 / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... is because, as these students go through MIT, most of the scientists ... here, I was pretty far along the science extreme. I'd done plenty of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 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 / 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  i went to the ig nobels! (last year) (there is also a vlog)

  

  throwing the idea around for all of freshman year. The fall semester ended ... ended up at the piano, relearning old songs and the feeling of the stretch ... for more classes than ever and dream about the clubs I'll join and the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 4, 2026
• 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 / 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 / How to Food

  SUCH a fruity guy in which I prevent scurvy

  

  of renovations, the current population is a mix of seniors who lived in ... to the idea of us having fruitbowl every week? Yes. The rationale for ... was dark and cold, ❄️ And the frosh were growing old. 👴 The end of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 20, 2026
• 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 / 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

  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 / 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
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a ... relatively long streak of getting automated answers! So the telethon seems to be going well at this point, all of the phones are still filled, and we

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  the index finger of his right hand. All 17 of his grandkids knew what ... 's spend this time examining the lesser-discussed problems of these surveys ... were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• 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 / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  talk to anyone outside of the people I knew from different ... else in the car disagreed with my claims of being an introvert. In ... where or when the idea of life-long friends was planted in my head, but

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019