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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to ... the page to load. I screamed when I saw the news, and called my parents

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... 't click further than the Notable Alumni page to see a good number of people ... (scientific ones nonetheless. You know, the ones that are hard to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  , academics, grades were the most important, which has taken me two years to get ... admissions decision season is nearing, here's a bonus link to a page on the ... said, I am pretty hosed right now and need to get to work on the four

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been ... .100L. You have to decide this switch by the end of the very first week ... really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the blank pages for to-do checklists. Staying organized will be a ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your

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

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if ... people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the ... worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... , the realization comes to us that nothing has changed. We're still going to have to face every second of every day until the day comes that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  all four grades were to be housed side-by-side. The result was an ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I ... , East Campus. (The dorm goes by EC for short, or East Campus Alumni

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• 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 ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... question of which futures I would like to leave on the table. Before we get

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... and didn’t have enough content, but Theo came to the rescue by dishing ... ="help (assist) Help Desk (the place where people get help) desk (a verb, to desk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the ... like it's the only expressive part to the whole application that you get ... : Should I get my teachers/friends to proofread the essay? For my very first

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  felt terrified by the idea. I was scared. "I think something I have to ... staging, and getting ready to launch things on the day-of. The community ... students and teachers to inform them about the situation, and it gets sent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS. The specific values and choices we disagree with are as follows: 1. By centering the Department of Economics, this display chooses to center one of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  again -- I needed an excuse to get back in the gym. I spend the bulk of ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... natural to talk about these things. I’m CJ. I’m from the Philippines. I live

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  As promised, an awesome guest entry - written by the wonderful ... next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some ... (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of ... refers to those buildings by number. If you focus on the Buildings 1 ... continue that line across the street, you get to Building 46. Branching off

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020