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• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  , there was just something about coding that clicked with me. IDK how to ... community's amazing, and I got to learn how to write a scientific research ... classmates. When I went up to my recitation leader to ask him how to become a

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

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  of years, but to answer the question “how did I start dancing” the only ... began to learn how much there was that I didn’t know. So rather than ... dancing to outside of MIT gave me even more perspective about how much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  . Actually it was wonderful to see how many things had stayed the same, little ... by how immediate it was—crossing the threshold, I mean, of the door to his house, and how rapidly it transported me to that period four years

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  experiences. When I applied to be a blogger, I partially wrote about how I enjoy ... whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania, visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  job detailing what ingredients and how much we needed to buy for our ... you were curious, you should look up how to cut an onion (especially the ... , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  -deception.' 'How can a man live in perfect harmony?' To which YISUN replied, 'Non ... , 'Futility.' 'How best can we serve your will?' To which YISUN replied, 'Kindly ... feelings; it's how I came to the word mudita, for example. In France, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  ? How can I prove that I am good enough? I still do not know to this day ... sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  ’ve faced or something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you ... med school), but I certainly remember how MIT History taught me to ... "Don't give other people essays that you won't be willing to write

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  ’m ready to stop focusing on how my community will no longer be living on our ... my floor and how I won’t be able to be around my friends anymore made ... sense, I guess; I DID manage to cram two months worth of memories into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  lecture for worldbuilding, Junot Díaz talked about how people need to escape ... seems to track how good I feel I am at math, because that's the thing I ... the way burnout from fall semester seems to carry over, about how

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  all. HOW THE HECK DO YOU CALCULATE THE MAXIMUM DOPPLER SHIFT POSSIBLE TO ... post. Disclaimer: I gave myself exactly one hour to write this post ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  out how to navigate the Institute, the year when we teamed up to make ... ) + (when I) asked Zach how to solve a 8.02 problem and Steve how to solve my ... QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  , like you do in your normal posts? alan: if this is how cj wants to ... it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could ... 's an admissions blogger. he has an obligation to post regularly. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... . I had been on the lookout for other options, and ETH seemed to be the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... whole and misrepresentative of what I really wanted to write about.   Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... starting over. No delays to tomorrow, next week, or next month. No more "I ... ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  Cavity” to show me how much more I need to learn and make me okay with that ... To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about all the things I kept meaning to write and then never got around to, and ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  've decided to make some little videos for you. Have you ever noticed how ... "Look at at all this free time I have! I'm going to fill it to the brim ... . A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  , and everyone around you may be a huge jerk, but they know how to walk ... In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008