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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  noticed three of my fellow passengers staring somewhat obviously at my shirt ... of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... to document things and ramble at a camera sometimes. I don't want to ... at night This is Not a Picture || VEDA #2 – #askMIT, career fairs, Big

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  limbo for an eternity before inevitably executed. Or you’re not accepted ... weeks ago. You all should check it out, and rejoice at the number near the ... -qualified applicants are admitted to at least one top college. Admittedly, the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge ... Boston Public Garden. Fog on the Charles River at sunrise. Crossing the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  a "nap", because I told a friend that I'd be free for a video call at ... for. But it felt like a pale imitation, as if looking at a painting ... cakes for your friends' birthdays, playing tractor at three in the morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  MIT has been different. Malingap is, when my first night at MIT, an ... . We hadn’t talked at all before that; all he knew was that I was a ... , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... as not to alert my parents who were home at that time “for no reason ... morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... already makes for a memorable life event, just because the next one won’t show it’s big red self for another thirty-three years! So let’s flash

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... -winning programming language. I didn't know what TEAL stood for, exactly. (Wait, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed ... was expecting to be able to stay in that room for at least the school ... goodbye. I sat there and stared at the door for several minutes. And then I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  , and you soul works at the returns desk for the 4-3xx library. You ... Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on ... choiceworthy is that which is chosen for its own sake. This may seem kind of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  cook-off didn’t [annotation note="which is probably for the best, at ... undefeatable Aang died. At the same time, I respected Azula for not waiting ... challenge. That Sunday, I went shopping for hours at 5 different places to get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  stupid - or at least not destined for Physics. Such words and notions are ... higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta ... testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... "] SHASS.[/annotation] I, for one, think this hack was extremely well done and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  ’s suggestion did sound clever… ya know what I’ll just go for it, at the expense ... time at MIT given how many exciting things there are to do here, but for ... "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the ... taste other things for the rest of my life going forward... After that I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last year when I got my first B. If it weren't for that B, I would have been ... am, at least to myself. I'm always telling myself that I was cheated

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... my head that I've been thinking about, each separately, for a few weeks ... Mondays. Then, I walk two buildings over and I go to office hours for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021