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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. — August 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by the indignant…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is a struggle: their patent was…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and stacked…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  [Disclaimer: Not my last post! I’ve still got one more in me after this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best friends from…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you’re on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience, my thoughts about…

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  At the CPW Women’s Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table asked me what I wish I’d known before I came to MIT. I wish I’d known from…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
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  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I’m sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa (MIT ’17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US History textbook The American Pageant,…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most disappointing or the spookiest Halloween…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven’t been on the Internet recently, a music video called “Gangnam Style” was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY, and now has the third most…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
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  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  I’ve been reading popular science for a long time. It’s why I’m interested in science. It’s probably why I’m at MIT. I have tremendous appreciation for people like Brian Greene…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
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  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you’ve always wanted to be – more…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Ben Bell Sophomore MIT-Israel Program Internship: Ben Gurion University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a…

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  The end of a chapter

  

  Hello guys! Sorry for the super duper long hiatus :( After my final exams which ended early June, I immediately set off for some traveling (I was in desperate need…

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 – My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That makes me twenty-three whole years old. I am impossibly old. I am improbably old.…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012