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  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  in reading about puzzles, feel free to skip any sections that talk ... -puzzle content in this post too. Worthwhile puzzlehunt information What is a ... overview in my last post. It’s an event that happens the weekend before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at the problem set on my computer screen, neck craning down. The music in ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... ?" That's when I knew that decision fatigue had set in early this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -day party before term starts when frosh find their home(s) at MIT, in every ... roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of ... outlined in blue frosting. Burton 5 sits on couches and windowsills, leaning

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place ... life. You will struggle in classes that don't feed your soul, completing

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was ... need to think about work/life balance in high school because they had ... myself in a blanket, planning my super twee future apartment, eating

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... Points full of of photos that look like they were used in MIT admissions brochures—picturesque skylines, happy smiling students in various spots around

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  . Writing well often means “being in the flow” and if you are not there, it’s kind of like plodding uphill knee-deep in mud on a hot humid day. Who ... in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
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  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I ... she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... when the time came, because who wouldn't be? My usual defense in this ... , so I had 'em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• 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 ... . Fortunately, the actual requirements are outlined here. In order to qualify, you ... darkest hell weeks at MIT. In lieu of resummarizing the endless cycle of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... like MIT, a school that was not in a predominantly black area, and had a ... % of graduate students https://web.mit.edu/facts/enrollment.html ). In

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  described:   Founded in 2003, the MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.   In today's (Wednesday's) edition of the Boston Globe, the second major

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of them and use them for signing in now) with Mac keyboards (thank goodness

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009