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  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself. Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... the agar. You wrap a piece of cloth around a cylindrical block and mash ... not only your experiment, but also the lives of millions of bacteria

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... MIT, I've been the treasurer of Chinese Students Club, President of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
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  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the component of force that my will would experience tangent to the wall during

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  of depression and extremely brief mentions of suicide and self ... the corners of my eyes. On the inside, nothing. Just emptiness. But ... into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
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  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  rid of it from all your displays, but I can't really find it and it's 2:43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I ... awesome school-skipping adventure of all time. Actually, Senior Skip Day at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e.g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  The fact of the matter is that MIT is just plain cool. This is not an ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things ... students here absolutely LOVE music. While 75% of students participated in

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... , albeit reasonable expectations of its applicants. Chris Peterson put it ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... happy that they had no idea of this fact; clearly, I’m doing a decent job

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September ... than ever before, in the form of taking five classes in my first semester

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... amount of work MIT students have. I usually respond that, while students certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
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  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  One of my favorite of MIT's 500+ student groups is called the ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... and turns red because of science I won’t get into. Now, this itself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her ... me. It took me a great deal of nerve to do that, to know that if I were

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
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  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Amazon.com sold out of their entire stock of the Wii on the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra ... realized that it's kind of bad when Mitra blogs more frequently than I do and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007