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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response ... anyone else ever run into the situation where people know who you are but you don't know them? It's a very odd feeling. I'm still at the point

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  for the past few months. First, for some students, there are early ... complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships ... -Help portion of your financial aid, at least at MIT) while at the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  . In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the ... the MIT QuestBridge Supplement. We submit your QuestBridge application, along with the QB supplement, in place of our first-year application
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  It's no secret that Course 6-3 (Computer Science) is one of the most, if not the most popular major at MIT. According to the Registrar, there were 757 undergraduate students alone enrolled in Course 6-3 for the Fall

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  ="perhaps somewhat naively though I think it was for the best"] I[/annotation] stopped ... than if I had been actively stressing about the wait"]A short while later,[/annotation] I was accepted into MIT early action. I cried on the phone with my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  . My phone, however, is a different story. The problem with the phone browser is that, when I'm done looking at websites, I just close the whole thing, expecting the tabs to be gone afterwards. Yet, they persist, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  says you’re in the EECS department – is that true?” another asked during office hours just a few weeks later. They were both under the guise that I ... mathematical computing) this semester, and I blow glass in MIT’s glass lab. The

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  much more productive over the past few weeks than i usually am. of course ... the author documents their friend jack’s descent into heroin addiction and eventual death by overdose. it’s probably one of the saddest things

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  Some lessons, we learn by virtue of way of life. They’re the kind of lessons that unfold not from pulpits or pedestals, but emerge from the ... school in the country’s capital. Mirroring Nigeria’s religious demographic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  ; frankly, I should have dropped the class after the midterm, but I was too ... moped alone. During this period, I decided that the responsible course of ... for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... this year in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange program. Possibly due to his mathematical maturity, he often gives off the dignified vibes of a tweedy

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  /22/05... ------------------------------------- Sendie wrote: "If the last SAT scores I sent to MIT was November, do I have to send the December scores again or will collegeboard still be sending ... the main office at 617

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  -packed week. The beginning of the week was either pretty lame or well ... decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the snow had melted. That didn't stop us. Aaron strapped on the skis and made

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT ... begrudgingly agreed to usher his blog entry into the multicolored web portal of ... blog entries from myself will sparsely surface to the light of your

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have ... travel and trying to free ourselves from the predicament.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSWcy-bx_lg Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this ... ’re walking on sunshine (or dancing in the moonlight). We’ll have some additional

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  ="attachment_109829" align="alignnone" width="225"] My hair has been updated in the last ... (they/them or she/her), class of 2007 and one of the earliest MIT ... 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). I started blogging in the summer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking ... better on a different chew toy, brightly colored perhaps, the kind of treat that has nutrition or enrichment like the toys tigers get at the zoo. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  out the other while walking to class, while eating, while doing chores ... reviewing Amazon products, but I only bow down to the Bezos occasionally, and ... LIBRARY! If you like audiobooks, consider getting a FREE library card at the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of ... life, but self-fulfilling prophecies certainly exist. the classical example is learned helplessness: in the original experiment, dogs in the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023