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  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These two photos are from Valentine's Day 2013, during my first time on MIT’s ... decade since MIT entered my life. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  together. Alan: Kevin’s path was pretty complete, and we saw limited reason ... Line’s SL3 route, which,[annotation note="there is so, so much MBTA lore ... Kevin’s plan, adding SL3, and talking about the different parts. There

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... lab under the cognitive science department, even though the project’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday ... ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  that become your closest friends. This is life- it’s messy, unexpected ... . Life isn’t always black or white. It’s some murky combination of many ... ’ve felt restless thinking about one question: “What’s next?” When you’re a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... single individual’s ability to succeed – and students are unable to believe ... blue coins, and knelt down next to the student. “Okay,” I said. “Let’s

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of missing people, that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone’s already left, that feeling of powerlessness about the whole thing. But it’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled ... anything about fire? The thing is just hanging off of a building. It's

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  , including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the ... with windows and ice cream cones). People have mixed feelings about MIT’s ... , and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  been waiting for? Bryan’s life after the blogs Big secret: I actually was on the 10-year plan at MIT. It’s secret like the Pirate Certificate ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant ... you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  representative of Tetazoo and Blacker’s love for each other. [caption id ... thought, maybe it’s missing something. What happened to the other colleges ... drawn weeping in the background. The Harvard mascot’s facial features bear

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Office was formally created in 1929, led by the Institute’s first ... Campus Preview Weekend brochures from the 90s, stacks of old MIT Admissions ... a VHS player handy? I’d love to see what’s on this tape."]VHS tape

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  admission exam and accepts the top scoring kid(s) from each town in our ... person isn’t nearly representative of “what you did in high school,” so it’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing ... . ‘16 Genome-based legged robot simulation for 6.S079. Robots are Klann ... ) and her boyfriend Alex and we yelled to early 2000s Avril Lavigne in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn ... with Pass/No Record, it may very well seem like everyone’s hanging out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  read more about Prof. Kaiser's new appointment here. __ It’s true ... nevermind. 4. Kaiser. The card game. (Apparently there’s a Canadian card game ... about this town is that it’s 1.5 hours away from mine. So nevermind

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it’s ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can ... received, my first question was always “why”. But that’s already been talked

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness ... .  Through a no-questions-asked s^3 meeting, one is provided a number of swipes ... entering. It’s so easy to get lost and go in circles and be picking up and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  somewhat.  It’s Friday as I edit this blog, the 19th of March, Add Date. If I want to switch into 8.02, that’s gotta happen today. This blog was ... smart enough and that is tied to your worth. It’s tied to your worth and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021