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

  

  talking on the phone with strangers. I didn't tell my parents about the ... the things that are wrong with your work. Then college admissions season ... flaws in our personhood. We don't get a WHY along with our NO, so we come

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  from my last conversation with him, which I was so lucky to film about a ... sharing life with me this year and I’ll see you around. <3, Elizabeth

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  . Sidequest 9: Build a thing. I built (with a LOT of help) a shelf for my loft ... something I genuinely love to do. Incomplete, with the following addendum ... with all my final exams for the semester and had been admitted into my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having ... isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell ... , and I built a bookshelf with Cory to hold our disassembled Legos. After

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  though! In Cambridge, I also fell in love with the history and beautiful ... replete with cobblestone streets epitomizes the quintessential Englishness ... students biking everywhere around town. I would like to share with you all

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how ... Splash. I remember my first encounter with ESP. The full story belongs for ... wonderful ESP was. He told me about all the great people he met working with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  with the strength of a firehose, hydrant, or [annotation note ... 't beat anyone over the head with it too hard, but their importance to the ... with is difficult, especially if you have a mid-semester major crisis and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  pretty cool especially because he closed with “Summertime," (warning ... connections; it’s more that I feel wholly satisfied with and grateful for what I ... —this year, I finally came to terms with the fact that I get tired if I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  exceptionally polished, with massive props and huge numbers of support staff ... expressing their ideas first; this has little correlation with which ideas are ... ", with an emphasis on Process: roughly half the class is spent on the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  Happy 10th birthday, blogs!!! I made you a cake! (With help from ... senior year of high school, and everything that came with it - classes ... ambitions), become a lawyer (wrong), and be married with kids within 5

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  there with a hundred or so other science fair people from across the ... reflect and pinpoint the causes of changes with certainty because we ... working much with other people, being reasonable in my commitments, taking

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... we complained that there were several nodes with odd degree in the ... order, finish Silver Line 1, 2, and 3 and the Blue Line, and then end with

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  ... everything. Although I do live with 6 people in what is essentially a ... "]cooperative living situation,[/annotation] it is a lot easier to manage with 7 than it is with, say, 50. I've found that I can be really particular with my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Stellar, each class has a page with things like assignment files and grades ... , the message with the [annotation note="as measured by Vader (Valence ... , funnily enough, when I made a word cloud out of the messages with the most

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  energy with them. The room was quiet. Then, suddenly, the quietness was ... -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id ... food – I was surprised with free candy before two of my exams! I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  , statistically, people do with YouTube videos) I won't blame you. Self

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  ' resurrection because we are uncomfortable with the uncertain temporariness of ... , Christians. One has navy-blue hair. She plays the guitar and sings with a navy ... with Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T." Passersby pause, curious. Two police

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  clear. Also, comics are fun to play around with, even though I have very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with ... that one may have to cope with as a result of coming from a low

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011