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  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  . It was my introduction to writing that wasn’t the five paragraph ... exactly the right outlet to contemplate on my experiences here. I sit down ... class that lets me write in one of my favorite genres? [annotation note

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  from Kendall Barbers. George, my barber, mused about how long my hair's grown. I told him that my last haircut probably happened last summer. He laughed. He was apologetic for taking so long to cut my hair, when it had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions ... had to give up my interest in mathematics. I simply applied it to other ... “basically logic.” My political philosophy papers have contained calculus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  very interesting to read. So today, I thought I’d try my best to just tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and ... one place — in kitchen appliances, for example. And the lesson for my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country, I made good friends from MIT that I wouldn’t have met otherwise, my ... rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  life since my ISEF Trip Report on May 13th. Week of May 16-22 After a ... Technology and Dispute Resolution (Ethan Katsh, my undergraduate thesis advisor ... proper Dutch experience.     My AirBnB loft, laptop

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a ... staff and my fellow Youth Advocates were amazing to work with. And today ... the actresses, so I really wanted to join. Best decision of my winter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  navigate MIT and attempt to reconcile my diverse interests in both biological ... , how to navigate the seemingly unfathomable internet and hone my voice ... and bathe in the (metaphorical) blood of my enemies — well, you get the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  ; During my time at MIT so far, I've learned some valuable lessons about ... hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in ... at the chance.  My first casual interview went well, and I scheduled a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking ... not worry if your interview report has not yet appeared on your My ... Documents The MyMIT Tracking is up-to-date (while the Admissions Office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  strictly. My understanding is that MyMIT is counting words like won't and ... may find that you can only fit, say, 247 words for a 250-word prompt. My ... you type directly into the text box on MyMIT, everything should be fine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  when I have a lot of work is also when I most enjoy my relaxation ... had to do, and I started off watching TV and sitting around with my ... busiest vacations in my life -- if it can be called that -- which had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  ” creeps into my typing fingers like an arthritis, and every push of the ... aging a long time ago, but I don't remember what she said because my ... along curling field lines. Perhaps my geriatric expressiveness is a just a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11 ... for my boyfriend on that stage. And the night after, BJ Novak was going ... three years, not giving a second thought to slopping my feet down all over

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  Facebook friend requests than personal emails. Also, you kids get off my lawn ... program, has improved my overall standard of living as well as my GDP and average lifespan. My first research group in the Materials Science

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written ... . (To answer the questions from my previous entry: no, really, I graduated from MIT and immediately went back to my old summer job from high school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  beat of silence, and then half the room was crushing my ribs with hugs ... those who are morally opposed to clicking on hyperlinks in my blog, here ... sounds. Except that my description comes nowhere close to describing the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  weekend, you’ll go somewhere to do something fun (my year we went to Cape ... , talent shows (I opened bottles with my mouth as my talent!), and parties ... sailing, swimming, tennis and some other stuff my year). 4) But Milena, isn

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  next four years in favor of concentrating solely on my classes. To my luck, my freshman advisor, Graham Ramsay, didn’t let that happen ... project that entails building my own 8x10 view camera at the Hobby Shop. I

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  're expecting a really interesting answer like an elephant eating my homework, you ... collaborative learning, which is nice in theory, but what happened in my ... classical mechanics, and even if I somehow figured out how to get around my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007