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  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  , and that if I did get into MIT, it would be against all odds. Even the ...     Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  , fix their misconception, and set them on the right path. Somehow, two ... is how much we rely on each other, and how much we can rely on each ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  usually okay. Biking can often be faster than the T. That being said, driving and biking in the city can suck and be dangerous. Though it seems ... large vehicles on the right. Assume that cars don’t see you, and be an

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  . More on these things further down the blog, though, and we can start ... on the surface, and I’ve been thinking a lot about my career, work ... -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon with Frank Borman and ... based on Slurms McKenzie from the Futurama episode “Fry and the Slurm ... This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  math on all the equipment I was buying and wondering if it would be worth ... into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... be okay with that. I have to attend to the weather and the wind and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try ... : Off to Steam Cafe (to which people submit their own recipes), on the ... , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to ... conversations on Discord, tours of the Minecraft campus on Twitch, and fun

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  in the wrong tower. You walk down the stairs, and exit on the top floor ... flowers. It’s painted white and seems to be melting into the ground. In the ... the dining. It does note that freshmen are tastiest, and will be paid

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  like working too hard in the class, you can take it on pass/no record or ... resource. 8. People will assume you can fix their cars and build the next ... me cry. That’s the reality. When it’s 2 am on a Thursday night and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  quick and satisfying meal along The Freedom Trail. There are 36 food ... will also be the place to meet their best first-year friends (and look at ... Haymarket is a not the most tourist-appropriate location. On Friday and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  absolutely no desire to be a lawyer, but the people on the team really are the ... only a twenty minute walk), and my friends and I can be more spontaneous ... . Whenever my parents pick me up from the St. Louis airport and we embark on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  acknowledging his situation. The climate crisis can be discouraging, but civil and ... , and is set apart from the Major Arcana by being unnumbered. A first ... using lightboard videos. 8.01 and 8.02 are shown on the pillars of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  and shelves traced out the silhouettes of what used to live on them ... 'll meet up again in whichever city we happen to be in at the same time and ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... Moses... Anyway, in a similar but distinct way, the word why can be ... ! It's because I suck as a human being and am destined for the trash life

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is ... thing, I was avoiding the harm it was dealing on both my mental and ... , and really the best I can do is to just take things one by one and not

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be ... from all the times I fell on my poor, poor bottom, and I'm pretty sure ... snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ... with priceless trust and faith, the kind that can only come from the ... will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• 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…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... shifts on the ambulance, and long hot showers trying to scrub off that ... everyone knows mine! And the whole finding friends, being without family, all

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

  Application dreaming

  

  perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with ... , research etc) ?? I am an international applicant, and I will definitly be ... those signs on the side of a bank that tells you the time and temperature

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004