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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
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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  ’m building new tools to study the interaction between tuberculosis and its host ... !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... were all grey, everyone was sad, and you were going to feel by yourself

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  final exam. It's written by me, it only has one question, and I get to ... custody", to "trust oneself completely to", to "bring into danger by an ... commit is to "bring into danger by an irrevocable preliminary act", and in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  decide you want to completely switch everything you're doing. Also, funding ... same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... because there's not a lot to learn? You know you're way around, so the hard

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
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  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
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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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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you ... consumes your life during your senior fall of high school, applying to ... , and I was even contacted by a company to have a coffee chat about 2020

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
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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
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  year for me. I was getting in to new things, branching out in school, and ... 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

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  referred to as Senior House, collectively) opened with the new campus ... worked well to alleviate the housing pressures; however, a new campus meant ... additional living spaces began soon after. Despite an intense desire to get

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  accomplishment? Seeing your name on the leaderboard from week to week? There ... ways to make websites; many students make their own personal websites ... Cloud website builder to help us out. Additionally, the Drupal Cloud

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  great way to waste time and you’re sure to get a laugh and a memory. And ... off-by-one error on your application: But even if you didn’t discover ... : maybe you’re accepted, and you envision yourself instantly getting a job

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness ... a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... talk by Carl Wieman (Physics, 2001). Also, thanks to the UROP program

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  'm hoping to get some answers this fall by taking a business class, 15 ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... mutate more and more as the months go by. The journey to figure out what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  through to associate ourselves by department number (visualized below). I ... suggested by their major or by the choices they made. Major choice seems to ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015