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  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  minutes. You get 1,000+ class options per semester, plus grad school classes ... class participant is placed with a master teacher in a middle or high ... approximately twenty hours, or about seven weeks of three-hour visits. My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  again when we started joking around right off the bat, 1.5 years after we ... /systemic limitations and societal pushbacks. The lack of sparkly tourist attractions or ... about how each teacher I met that day had affected me, but there’s only so

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions ... ="i.e. purpose, goal, intended outcome or consequence, such as in the phrase 'the ... query out what is virtuous or good in a given set of circumstances

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  , whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... due to excitement or awkwardness. When I’m really mad, however, I swear ... can probably imagine, when we release our admissions decisions on Pi Day

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  with the strength of a firehose, hydrant, or [annotation note ... them. Note #1: I have of course not worked all of the following jobs in ... others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to ... written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission ... would be on a given day in the year, but was more interested in coding the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk ... emotional instability. Two days later I had a procedure at MIT Medical to ... three days, and then it was over. The next week was my primary hell week

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  play. Play a tournament for bragging rights, or make a fool of yourself ... this week, and friendly competition is an amazing icebreaker. After a day ... . This event? A hylomorphism on dumplings. Come learn the basic fold, or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ! 21W.755 This past weekend, my homework assignment was to eavesdrop (or ... ’s something different--a smell, a sound, a texture or tactile feeling. This ... life of me remember the title of the book or text, but he says

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious ... magical phenomenon called Reg Day, where you're required to physically go to ... semester, or change them as necessary. Hopefully, this meeting involves you

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  very clearly, others seeing something blurry, or only outlines. But there ... visualize things, or who have aphantasia. I didn't realize I had aphantasia until maybe four or five years ago, which was roughly the time when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U ... , Colorado. I got more into Formula 1 racing simulators and logged an obscene ... any notable challenges or highlights? Gaurab: I decided I wanted to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a ... for feeling all of those things, or feeling anything else. No matter ... way to start moving forward from a Pi Day that might not have gone the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  conversation, but a badly lit selfie and a quick hug would have to do. One day we ... complain about shitty coworkers or the economy or whatever. But it stings not knowing when "one day" will be. I don't want to say goodbye, unwilling to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger ... seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... limited in function, the Facebook Messenger group chats were pretty fun. A

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’s kind of like plodding uphill knee-deep in mud on a hot humid day. Who ... some advice for those of you worried about writing, or worried about writing your application essays this fall, or worried about writing a paper

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire ... john. "but don't look up. feel it against your cheeks, or your ears. look ... goes on the scale of days, affected by the events in someone's life. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  . But it was very adorable. Then, I will run, jog, walk, and/or hobble 26 ... , three days later, shot Sean Collier outside the Stata Center at the ... classes without studying much, and when I did poorly on certain tests or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  monologue was incredibly long and circuitous. Cutting it down to 7 minutes was a challenge, but if you get bored at around 3 or 4 minutes (as I think

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015