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  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  being interested in science + wanting to help people and change the world ... rehearse for the musical, because no one would be able to hear me) and phoned ... Professor Dumbledore, and fill him in on my research experience at the NRAO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  're being, and people can see you. I don't have 50 pieces of advice; Ben ... casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be ... the strength you've gained from having met him, and you'll be more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... pronunciations are the least of your worries right now. Another can of lingual ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  application wouldn't be on my pile in the first place.) By now I'm fully ... up the mail (for real), so it's on the way. I'll be thinking about all ... 'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table. The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  ’s passion. And yes, that stuff really does drip off the page in the best of ... dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  be felt droplets, and even the lightest of rains would be felt if you ... shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  to be able to navigate using the stars and such"]NS.22: Navigation ... to take and helping the administrators figure out how popular classes will likely be. There are some classes that are always very popular and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  of the struggles I had in leaving home and being on my own for the ... still being shaped by Atlanta, both the good and the bad. But that being ... the world tell you who you have to be and what it looks like to be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  my sorority has ended up being one of the one of the best and most ... the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all ... preparation and decoration that needed to be done to make sure the PNMs felt

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  snake can beat the snake challenge. And some people might be inherently ... future, that I can come back and continue to be a member of the Guild. In ... forward to coming back and doing things. I'd guess that I was also on the

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

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  major, making music, writing poems—the list goes on. These posts will be ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... or another, and so I rolled the cart along, once again sad to be moving

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  less analytical and much more emotional, so I will not be focusing on the ... waist-high stone railings you can sit on, and the subtle arch on the deck ... ="i’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... us expand the list of places to be sad, so fill out this survey and let ... I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  somewhat better at the design software I was using and procrastinated on my ... … like, I was just trying to be nice and help the kids with their game when ... on a piece of graph paper and made an “o” in a cell at the bottom. She

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

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  "]prodigality[/annotation] and stinginess. Aristotle acknowledges that it is hard to hit on the ... might be interested in and ended up with a six-page document. Each set of ... to be said for the power of human society, and the relationships we

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  is redesigning admissions and SFS. Elizabeth and I were both on the ... before.) The page has been well-liked and well-used. But research of ... left side the new homepage is devoted to utility and self-guided journeys

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . And then the actual 2020 Ring Committee came on stage and yet again, the ... into the theatre). And the two Ring Comm members that were on stage at ... tickets were either white, red, or blue, and before they said the number on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  exhibits, sit in on a sea turtle surgery, and play with the octopus. The ... , she jumped into the nearest tank and wrestled a rowdy octopus into ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  like an apple. The video is truly harrowing, but you can watch it on ... , surviving, and being given a lot of teddy bears in the hospital. —C Liu ... can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020