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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  as the week went by. The afternoon he left, we sat and talked to each ... realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so ... to the person staffing it, and say what we wanted. It was nice getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  hanging a bicycle using the fridge as a prop to get it up in the air." They ... the EC table saw to get the right shape of pieces to fill that room ... blue jay, labeled "sea jay". This was given to me by a friend, making the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  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 ... nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  rush job to get it together before we left. Coupled with some array ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep ... internet this fast again. And you will cry yourself to sleep because of that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
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  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I ... ’s recruitment team spends a ton of time over the summer to get everything ready

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
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  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... .100L. You have to decide this switch by the end of the very first week ... -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  seemed to be, “I feel like I would get different results if I took this ... to know someone’s personality is to...well...get to know them! I ... highly value my emotional connections with others and struggle to get used

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  . If I went to the other school, though, I'd be surrounded by people I ... they might get in. I said I'd of course tell them to take a shot and see ... start by figuring out what your big-picture goals are, and then attempt to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... , trying to get a clear picture of what I wanted career-wise. I was involved ... , and MIT would be hard to get into (duh). But at some point, I decided to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -handed Uber drivers. Yep, I'm going to get a job. That's the conclusion. Egad ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  won't get brownie points by putting down "programming," "building robots ... , unable to get help. A worsening stomachache can lead to appendicitis that ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  without making things and actively trying to get better. I made a class ... : what happens to your teeth when you get braces) with Andrea, one of the ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015