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

  

  is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an ... I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  fun walking around on giant blocks of foam. [carousel image1 ... basement of N51, cajoling the biggest water-jet on campus into cutting giant ... on a team in this way — where we’re all passionate about what we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... ” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the ... what’s good for you. MIT is also breeding ground for those out-of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... then on several blogger lists of current and former bloggers. Through ... observes, being "out" is not the only way to be LGTBQ+, and the costs of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs ... the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College ... ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  overnight--it’s a long, long road, with a lot of checkpoints on the way, like ... immediately. I would go home in the middle of the day because I was on the verge ... talking to most of the people I once knew. And whenever I meet anyone new, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  to get in a class sometimes got in the way of me focusing on the ... through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students ... of space—apparently, i had entered the coordinates wrong. on the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... fine, however, is missing out on a lot of defining experiences because

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... very flexible about creating new or different life groups depending on ... the credibility of the Gospels and the Christmas Story, and on the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you're in your room, that ... the way things work. Nine. One of the things I valued so much about ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  many ways, this is the beginning rather than the end. The real goal of ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting there worth it? Am I doing a good job of being a good person, of being a ... term. On the other hand, as the end of the term arrived, I was unlucky

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  on the application! Cancer As a water sign, cancers have lots of ... might face good or bad news or when your cancer ways impact your ability ... obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The ... I came to MIT, and I know I'm only on the first step of this path. I ... of approaches on those tricky problems with me and sang the other parts

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  focusing not just on “what is”, but “what can be”. In many ways, this is good ... road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... post will be a way for you to start processing all of those thoughts, a

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

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  mysterious mention of a "thing I'm working on this term, and it's the biggest ... our investors made a good chunk of his money from the infamous MIT ... after graduating and dumping all of it into clumsy stupid words on a page

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  dorms would take on an entirely new level of technicality—the rise of the ... groundbreaking began on the new dormitories by September of that year. The reunion ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my ... prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... effect of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) on the drought stress of Solanum ... putting bad special effects on them. I would also usually try to find ways

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ...  Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018