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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every ... breakup, pacing in the parking lot of one of the endless plazas that make up ... shifts, and one day a jar of alfredo sauce cracked on the assembly line and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  gender-exclusive ones.) [1] Twenty-two You might be wondering, why 22? All ... symbols in the house were squids and [annotation note="Purple is one of Tau ... . I was given one with a squid made from fractals! There were 33 other

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  that I could have one fun year with people I really vibe with before ... housing rates to Tier 1 ones. While it's certainly the case that we'd be ... semester. In light of this, there were a number of scenarios to consider: one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  begins here Kickoff The first puzzle One puzzle down and more to ... contestants solving hundreds of puzzles. One way to view the Hunt is from a ... Mystery Hunt will subvert something, in one way or another. Mystery Hunt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• 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 ... most: Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode ... : She has, frankly, one of the best letters of recommendation I've ever

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  other doors than just the one on pi day you are waiting to open.  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  treatment of your application and to our treatment of one another, rooted in ... human process. One of my favorite memories of our selection process is ... our past Pi Day videos. This one even features the gray, plastic eyesore

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  a little awkward too, but one thing I’ve learned is that we should not ... television--random people having "one night stands" or "friends with benefits ... relationship, you will be able to find one. Urban-dictionary-type Definitions

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  finish and post it. I also gave up scripting this one, so my initial

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... they’re out there, but I won’t pretend to be one of them, and I doubt ... me “loudest.” Was involved in research One thing that was great

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  choosing between two majors, and eliminated one because they "don't like ... string represents one student's major, and represents the answers to six ... -majors used two white strings each, one for each of their majors. You'll realize

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where ... initially I wasn't too excited to spend one long day working hard in the shop

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was ... Jimmy Bartolotta '09. One of the great things about sports at MIT is that ... along one of their top students to provide the undergraduate perspective

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ones which consistently rank MIT undergrad as #1. My standard line at CPW ... little bit easier for you." But this one got me thinking... regarless of ... -taker, or one of my friends e-mailed me and said that her boss asked for some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  runners stuck around for awards, so Sam got one of the prizes. Have fun with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  one about people and expect nobody to ever post videos of you. Once ... blackboard skills beyond reproach. One of the most popular lecturers in the ... three semesters), I never stopped loving her, even for one moment. I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is ... . what do you see? why is the world this way? who am i?” One of my friends ... he said it went well. The Music of Celeste, an entire one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  great suggestions, but one in particular caught my attention, in response ... . No one is obligated to discuss their sexual orientation, gender ... it’s the most important one of my whole paragraph. Well, I’ll define it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them ... one each of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities designated courses ... ’m taking only one technical course and two humanities courses. That’s because

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  ”. After flipping through the notebooks, one would be met with a fleet of ... eternity of pages, one would then reach a paper with an orange post-it note. My paper, my proudest accomplishment, my one contribution to the world

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016