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  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  get into MIT, but I do believe you're all guaranteed for success just ... you. If you do that, you're guaranteed to discover the blessing in ... somewhere that gets it." Caroline '17 (Alpha Chi Omega) - "By the time Pi Day

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... based in LA (so many Google Hangouts!) and to have my opinion valued even ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... , Professor Sive, indeed. 10:00pm: John '98 asks when I'm going to get around

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  getting by, and it feels like I’m regressing. I worry I won’t be able to get ... . I couldn’t get myself to finish the last remaining work I had due ... ,[/annotation] from a bunched up fist against my cheek, to my index brushing the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... a drone with your phone attached to it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by ... navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to ... getting to go indoor skydiving with the frat brothers. A dozen freshmen and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  force I should apply through my legs to get me where I think I thought I ... dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you’re ... not as safe. It’s a good idea to lock your laptop for bathroom or lunch

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... add a few years to your lifespan. I remember dedicating quite a few ... bomb! How come I've never used Doodle or Google Docs before coming to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky ... Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  , stumbling to the bathroom. Your path is blocked by a herd of tetafrosh ... . ‘17 You are sitting in the courtyard. You check your email. New email to ... smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  to live in these places until your second year at MIT. Figure 1b ... these calculations by hand with your own underwear.) From this, we can ... (if you’re on a tablet) to see each color on its own. There is a sad

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  easy to get used to. It’s important to remember throughout your time at ... summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program ... the first time, which meant a lot of new logistics to sort out. I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  class of 2011, when you get to the rest of your life - there will be so ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule ... categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... -- once I tried to get my media out before the autoclave was done exhausting ... week to working 40 hours; while during term I'm actually limited by the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  your experience was like mine, many people were doubting you. To you ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... ways to change your happiness: change your life, or change your mind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you’re

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... freshman to junior year. It felt good to me to get good grades because good ... -year-old stop crying by sitting her on my lap and reading to her. Or more

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  onto the Mattapan High-Speed Trolley, which gets credit for going to ... passengers passes by. Then, a train originally destined to Ashmont rolls by ... Braintree, we get out of the train, realize that the same train was going to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  than lacing your opinions with apologies. Be open to new experiences, but ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place don't have to become your closest (or only) friends. Keep exploring

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... in ten-minute-long songs by Opeth to annoy me sometimes, which I ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008