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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel. Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  far is based on hard work, and if you work hard too there is no reason ... school had no resources or coaches and our team consisted of 8 members ... we come from will look at you with confusion. You will no longer be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  Robin, should've volunteered that extra hour like Kim." NO! Please do NOT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  sense of continuity no matter what else seems to change. Candlelit dinners

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in ... have are videogames and Reddit. No extracurriculars at all. Hell, I don ... wanted to start by writing out standard admissions advice (e.g. no one

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  . (Well, not really - we all just convened to complain about how we could no ... , there's no points or whatever people have left over at the semester (it ... -semester freshmen have the advantage of Pass/No-Record - which basically means that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  point that it's no longer your work - or, even worse, your voice. So

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... is pretty normal – no darker, colder, or drearier than it has been

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , but we grew up in Denver, where there was no one like us. This wasn ... subway. No matter where in the world we went, on the subway, people would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... relaxed, but don't forget to propel yourself along. Third, there's no need

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... amputated penis has been partially eaten by a duck"  In no particular order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  ...I have no idea what that is. Oddly, as soon as I typed this, my sister ... (paraphrased): .....no. MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  administered in English. There are no minimums, because, ironically, the ... story. I said, in effect, there there's no such thing as being "qualified

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  example, this bears no resemblance to snow: Gratuitous picture. Yes, this ... minds: OH MY GOD AHHHH ADMISSIONS DECISIONS?! Well, no, not yet

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There ... hundred metres underground, cared for by no one, known to exist to no one ... it. Would I regret not making amends with my family? No. Would I regret

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  beeti?” Is there water in Muti? He simply responded, “Aalle.” No, there is ... college. I had to explain simply, since my Amharic and Kafa No’No aren’t too ... responded, no, I told them, I came here to fix Muti’s water problem. There was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016