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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night, really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... a Game. There's plenty of other meaningful prose by other brilliant

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to get us where we need to go, and I quickly learned at MIT, a few ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... now. What used to be a maintained sting like an open wound, now merely

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  you could get involved in. Not to mention classes. College will be a ... school. Get a huge notebook with calendar dates and extra space to write ... 'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group ... that just by integrating into a floor culture, they can gain a lifelong ... and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a ... kids. From September 2010 to May 2011 I barely scraped by on my tutoring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by ... find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  by everyone else too. Every day on campus I smile and wave to a dozen ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  taught by a specific person. I trust that there were clubs you wanted to ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  procedure, and that the good person makes a decision by trying to rationally ... Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I ... ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions

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

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  procrastinate if you haven't submitted a Regular Action application by January 1st ... be great! You aren't afraid to throw in an application to a school that ... often receive applications where its obvious a student has only applied to

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  was, and I finally resolve to get up. Behind me on the fort a string of ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... to track, and a racing car seat and harness attach rider to car

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  a spot, unfortunately..." But you'll get used to it eventually. In ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another ... . Every senior gets four tickets to give to friends or family for graduation ... was finished I realized that it was also a nice nod to Course 6. Tiffany

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  . It was not enough to get me through MIT. I enrolled as a graduate ... I had been matched to a research group led by an intellectual hero of ... 'd nailed, and I'd never had my ability to complete a course questioned by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  The end of a chapter

  

  to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... Biochemistry. By the way, Pathology is a really fascinating Tripos too! Now

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012