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  In Stereo

  

  fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 ... egalitarian in that way. We really want to do our best for the students and parents who attend these meetings, to really make them worthwile. For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  ’—an infinite one, at that. Dramatically, slash if I were into telling fables, I ... professor at a college in Dallas—had a conference in a city far north from our ... , who was at the time 11), hopped on an airplane, and took what I didn

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  Boston. The closest one is in a town called Dedham, MA. My craving for ... another opportunity like this for the rest of the year where Mariia would ... within two minute walking distance of each other for no apparent reason

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most ... are many other ambitions - for instance, to be the best possible ... be god, formless light fed through wire? All I pray for in the next

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... these ways, MIT isn't hard because I chose for it to be hard, it just is ... ’s definitely bad for you but you love it anyway. —Adira B. ’21 This is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... transparent plastic top, this nautical party ship cost all of $10.99 at the ... I said, 'Why pay for a yacht when we can just make a giant flotilla of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  internship during the daytime hours. I was writing embedded code for hardware ... of staring at Jira, VS Code, C++ docs, and the free snack selection in ... life. I found myself staring at these houses each day as I passed

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  paraphrase now: At this point in the journey, the nymph feels dissatisfied with ... notion of a ‘lukewarm life’ jumped out at me. As a freshman, I found that ... . Everything was a learning experience; the world had just opened up for me in a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  circle 😊. You can learn more about the team at https ... , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... , our 550-Volt custom battery, controls algorithms for torque vectoring

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  was not a comfortable sleep. Luckily for me, my Amazon bed got delivered ... year. i added the numbers for primary and secondary 14 majors, so the ... unicorn[/annotation] at MIT. These classes are all somewhere in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... around with it for 10 minutes and finding it horribly disgusting. But with ... of myself for doing these things, and even though it seems kind of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  around for summer UROPs.  I'm Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and ... designed to be used for research on topics like flight formation and docking ... competitions for middle- and high-schoolers, culminating in a NASA

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  one person shaking his fist proclaiming "F*ck yeah" repeatedly. For our ... for our growth and development as a class, so we feature the Greek ... watch for a touch of classiness and old traditions, as well as to remind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for a week. Putz and Tetazoo have quite the relationship, one that ... for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... on the first floor). On three separate occasions, I found myself at the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  company-of-the-week's mission. I made my way through three interviews for ... . Looking back at my September 2019 schedule, I went to pretty much a ... next night there was an infosession for Splash, with Thai food, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  schools we dreamed of, and tried to sign up for extra courses only to drop ... qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... where Ruby and Sapphire fuse for the “first” time again. Watching the cast

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  -class problems, because i didn’t want to start crying at one in the afternoon for ... week has been really tough and really strange for everyone on campus, and ... searched for the Boston Globe article that i knew would have been written. i

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... - instead, check out Chris S.'s awesome entry. The essays are a chance for ... REAL people who, at the end of the day, are still just your [somewhat

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  as well, but for now I am enjoying myself in the moment, even with the ... side, that also means it is harder to find people to ask for help ... , but transportation is definitely there, though not as much at the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010