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  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what ... as an independent inquiry, but later got mentorship for it through MIT ... single most impactful academic experience in high school, so it informed a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  . It doesn't take long for our heartbeats to naturally fall into sync ... document. Looking back at my journal, it’s filled with all kinds of notes ... week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  analysis for two labs. It's going to be a long day. And to ensure I can ... It's 1am Sunday morning. I just got back from a two-hour car ride ... undervalued - people seem to think it's too basic and simple and unexciting, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  all come and how long we have been at the institute. Before coming to ... successfully making it through what is undoubtedly some of the hardest four years ... China, but it slowly starting to hit me that this year is the ‘easy’ year

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  your research mentor. It is unlikely that if you submit a complete research paper that we will be able to have it properly evaluated during our process. We'll be most interested in your research experience: how you got

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  research mentor. It is unlikely that if you submit a complete research paper that we will be able to have it properly evaluated during our process. We'll be most interested in your research experience: how you got interested

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  : "I’m not going to tell you that it doesn’t hurt, but I will tell you that you’re strong enough to get over it, however long it takes." If you ... , shake it off, and get back up again. Remember that you will survive — and

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  how they're studying aviation and what games they're into right now. It ... websites for Airbnb and Kopa. Well, it's not like we had any better leads, and it's not like I wanted to put in any effort. I told the other two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  . "Oh my god, hey! I haven't seen you in so long. How are you?" High ... the point where it numbs my mouth. Or that the strange hierarchy that ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  remembered what it really meant and how we all have done it. We all pulled a ... beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it ... part of my major, and after this it gets a lot better.  I really do feel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... ’t sound like a big deal? Oh, it is. Many distance runners around the nation long for just one Saturday morning without a race on their mind and a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the ... ! The next blog will feature even more winter teams, so stay tuned :) How ... and it makes coming to practice each day something I look forward to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  Hi! Remember me? It’s only been 14 years since my last MIT Admissions ... Hawaii and coordinator at an open science nonprofit. As it so happened, I ... leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  vocal cords vibrate when producing it. A consonant is unvoiced if the vocal cords do not vibrate when producing it. Here is a diagram that might ... describe, the best way to think of it is further back behind the alveolar

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  exactly how many tests I failed freshman year. I know it was at least three ... , this page will show a list of HASS-Ds with open seats. Although it does ... class, it gets recorded on your transcript merely as a "P". If you get a D

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  introduction CJ: Gods, how did this start again? Alan: Are we really ... other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... knowledge of MIT’s campus and all its many quirks. Their blog also has a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  of this whole trip. Basically, it answers why and how we did it. Now ... , really long tunnel. It felt endless. After a groggy night of half ... long it would take us to get from A to B. Even if we practiced biking

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  a message board for an irrationally long time, it’s probably me ... , “Grass. I lied about the wheels. Ha!” It’s the epitome of the anti ... . How could I resist the intersection of my two loves, biology and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi ... of the Sport Death shirt that at this point it's probably cheaper to just turn myself into a giant skull. Long story short, I loved living

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of ... objects and the ones that make it into our eyes are the ones that comprise ... 'd waste a lot of computation because most photons wouldn't end up making it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011