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  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  enough. Successful applicants really do come in all shapes and sizes and ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College ... really wasn’t concerned where because I had no idea what I was going to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  don't know, really. But, at the very least, what I do know is that I ... questions, like they were doing a study of this dish. It warmed my heart to ... (which I absolutely do NOT recommend because capsaicin, the chemical that

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  one semester. If you don't need 6.100B (not many courses do) then you ... .100L. I signed up for [annotation note="ALL TECHNICAL WHY DID I DO THIS ... except for the number keys, which only let me use 5 and 6. So I had to do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... so it’s not like you have to come early just to do recruitment ... doing what I did sophomore year again and talking to the PNMs with my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  was maybe i am doing much. even then, it felt like i was approaching my ... the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked ... . it is normally in boston university, but this year we are doing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  with flags and a huge Trojan duck with angry eyebrows, inscribed: “DO U ... , draped”; alternately: “Please do not climb on sculpture.” Its base is wet ... , that I wanted to do something like that when I grew up, and that MIT was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  to do. We held a meeting to discuss our preferences/how to best stick ... able to create our video in quarantine. Check it out: [embed]https://www.youtube.com ... me doing some tiktok-esque dance in there Burton-Conner Shirts After a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  any real footage of me doing stuff--I’m behind the camera!)   ... helped set us up with some of his classmates who were planning to do some ... always imagine.   Fanart from buttercookie-art.tumblr.com Riri

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  other about plans. What are you gonna do with all your free time? Do you know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... faculty lunches that the Office of the First Year was doing were canceled. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  . And then David and Ali asked me, “Do you want to lead this new project ... ."]trainers[/annotation] and performers and generally people who knew how to Do Things ... /volunteers/photographers. Because I had literally no idea what I was doing, I’d email people asking

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  the fun way and most of your friends do it with you. —TK '23 walking ... in the end but it feels mostly awful while you do it (even though you ... how to do one lap of freestyle successfully five minutes beforehand

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I ... around the clock, doing homework, sleeping, whatever. Most were bloggers ... , MIKE YANG. DO YOU HAVE ANY KIDS? DO YOU??? DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... that package? It was all I could do to balance my sanity between the ... real glimmer of hope emerged. You do have a chance, I told myself. Penn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... school, I'd go to the library and do work in this school, I'd go to sleep ... commitments. (Why else do we have regrets?) We, external observers, see Wheeler

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an ... research you do about colleges, things might change in ways you never could ... , and you actually do like having seasons and winter. If I choose to go to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  our family history, which is still sitting in my Google Drive somewhere ... piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... ”--our family in Ethiopia, and how they were doing, who was doing what. My cousins

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  idea to give an introduction to ESP, and what we do, that's shorter than ... 's motto is learn anything, teach anything, do anything, and we really mean ... possibility. Imagine what we could do if we didn't have to worry about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ? Learn anything The extracurricular he really likes doing Hi, are you ... anything, do anything!” And the first time I looked at the class catalog, I ... . what do you see? why is the world this way? who am i?” One of my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  classes there, and if you do well enough in their classes you’re basically ... . It’s built to be part time, it’s right up the street (I tend to do ... for my plans. Do as much as I can and learn as much as I can at Akamai

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list happened :) Some commentary - THINGS I DID DO (yellow) 1. Pull an all

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011