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  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  High Schoolers), and have noticed that many of them have similar themes ... scrolling and scanning, here's a table of contents: 1. Calculus and APs aren ... people or the world, and that I'm not smart enough to pursue what I want to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the ... ago, the painted red and white stripes on the trees beside my ... electrical outlets"]some despairing, others encouraging, and yet more cracking

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  to real work, so I made a little Twitter thread about my quest and ... , CJ and I promised that we would write a post full of wonderful facts and obscure lore about the history of the T. This is not that post

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Anniversary Special release, and Splash was overrun by Doctor Who fans. I was wearing earrings that said "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" and my audiences were littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  and Taylor '13 Jonte '13 Sean '13 Terence '13 Christy '13 North ... : June 1, 2009 "There are components of people and components of the ... Cross and maybe even all of Roanoke. So smart in fact, that he got

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  . Maybe you went, "wow, is this title yet another bad pun?" And indeed, it ... write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this ... these avid readers of the blogs, and I didn't hear much about MIT before

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend ... . Anyways, we had two motivations for this trip, and one of them was hiking ... AllTrails said that it was sometimes filled up by 7. And even on three

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  thing, and these are real thoughts I had when filling out my application ... ’t worry so much! You’ll be happy wherever you end up!”, and so on. Okay ... extremely stressed out by cutthroat competition and judgment from high

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  anxious students and family members who are going through the college application season, and are either trying to vibe out whether they want to apply to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever-growing and never-shrinking universe that is Organic Chemistry. Time and time

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... opinions and create my own war in the comments. My biggest issue with "end ... important that happens in December. But, I refuse to break a trend and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  friends from the philippines died from suicide, and it’s been troubling me ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it ... ’s probably not a lot, and i’ve had friends who’ve gone through more. but i like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  user’s body. It does this in real time and can handle multiple users. The ... of it is technical, it’s a really sharp break from the math-and ... regularly exposed to challenging and cutting edge ideas and being asked to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  ) understood. That was my big :( moment of the week, but the trees and the ... in Taiwan that we only have two seasons in a year - "wet and hot" and "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  numbers 32, 4, and 3 are fairly accurate estimates of what walking on real ... anatomy and mechanics, which most mit students possess but have not yet ... in ways that impair walking, i’m sorry and i have no idea what it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  : recycling! So, welcome to "Flashback: Part 1," where my older and wiser senior ... am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... Engineering) as a major and possibly minor in Course 17 (Political Science

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  I stay, will you go? And if I go, will you stay? I don't know If I can ... decision theory textbooks, rationality blog posts, and sappy screeds about ... knowing and working, a gap exacerbated by the fear, uncertainty, and doubt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  Francisco. If you haven't yet, you should start by reading part one and part ... morning! The sun is coming up over Denver, CO, and it is a beautiful day out here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the ... schoolers, prefrosh, and people in general. And in case at any point it feels ... aptly titled: The game of rules and living by them. Song: The Name of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  educational and rehabilitative game designed to help developmentally disabled ... stainless steel and carbon fiber. They’re all past products innovated by MIT ... , bouncing off ceilings and onto the stage. Needless to say, I was excited

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013