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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018 ... . And at MIT, where a 59 on an exam can be a B, the feeling of failure at ... , ask a lot of questions—questions are the only way you can truly change

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... built my home; what I need is a snapshot of yours. As I find my way from ... Burton-Conner: potted plants on windowsills and a Dalek at the end of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  that solved this puzzle, and that's years and years of stories. The way ... -joke. On top of the TV was a webcam, which streamed a video feed of the ... beginning of the hunt, with less puzzles available to work on, but Galactic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  class ring. Many of my friends carry $10 and $20 daily, while I get $5 on a good day. Most of their parents are middle to upper class, working ... pee his pants impressed that I'd climbed so high on the life ladder. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... 'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... bad things we were leaving and the good things to come. In a way my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... ’s kind of like plodding uphill knee-deep in mud on a hot humid day. Who ... of you, I know, that is not good news. But hopefully most of you

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  spot a lot of my friends walking between classes, and I have way less ... . what do you see? why is the world this way? who am i?” One of my friends ... (which, by the way, is very good). Demystifying Cryptography, a class

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

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  expanded my scope in search of good food. Kendall Square? [annotation note ... evolutionary biological analysis on why my method of preparing steak is the ... rabbit meat on a piece of plastic wrap. Spread stuffing on top of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... having a lot of Greek on campus, but in recent years it has gotten smaller ... October 8, 1977, the Lambda Upsilon Chapter of AKA was the first sorority on

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  celebrate and show your community spirit! And one of the main ways people do ... of presenters, a freshman volunteer would come on stage with a bag ... the iconic beaver on it. But our ring this year, in 2018, the year of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  week) is fewer courses than a good number of upperclassmen take (not ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... and continued to work on my essay. At 3am, in commemoration of reaching

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  one on the art end of the visual storytelling production pipeline. But ... while we will miss out on and oddly* miss part of that ... things. wow, was this just a long and convoluted way of saying we'll miss

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  of person who might love it. Life moves fast here: there are many more ... , from the bottom of my heart: good luck! Black Hole kitchen          ... Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is ... week ago, I wrote a note on the front cover of my current notebook ... This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  good along the way.  However, much of the time, students fail to connect ... fishing for an interesting bit of information that might make a good story ... their experience is a tally of hours, or they have to travel half way

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  complex in ways that extend far beyond the original understanding of the ... , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of Mc

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  things that way. It takes a whole new dimension of gut, though, to hold your head up high when doing something you're not good at, in front of ... came on, the music started, and all thoughts of the audience disappeared

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... . Professor Paxson is discussing the influence of culture on the individual. I ... effect of bewitching on these dynamics. It's a small class (seven students

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  rather than through individual initiative on the part of the student, or ... the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024