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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  were they supposed to get a car off the dome? Helicopters flew by all day ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  by just overexerting myself.  Learn, for the first time, how to ... just to eat by myself. Work at Tech Calling, a job I hated, to try to make enough money to fly home that semester and be with my family again

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  procedure, and that the good person makes a decision by trying to rationally ... do you want to live well? B: Because living well would make me happy. A ... topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  50 Reflections

  

  push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... the student bloggers out to lunch. (Recalling this memory still makes my ... . (Sometimes the hug makes her cry though.) To all the folks working behind the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  . She said that dropping from 8.022 to 8.02 does not make anyone more or ... makes me want to stay. 8.02 could well be a good class. I don’t think I ... this particular topic. She is going to guide me in how to make circuits

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... 't click further than the Notable Alumni page to see a good number of people ... 's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... . Balance = well-being. Make perspective a priority. If you're too close to ... . It is impossible to describe how quickly they pass. This is the only

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply ... her, I'm inspired enough by the stories I read to think that the world ... In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
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  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  , if you do decide to make the leap from a small town to a big city, don ... to connect high school students from those backgrounds with top ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  differently. If you learn best by going to every lecture, taking meticulous ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I ... astounded by all these people with whom I had a lot of shared technical

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  to make sure every order was fulfilled correctly during the ... full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world ... home. You know everybody by name and are always trying to uplift people

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring ... things that I've tried to live by or maybe wish I had realized when I was ... my children. If I hadn't been brave enough to make that change, I don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  the last few years, which makes it hard to be certain about where I ... making career decisions of my own; instead, I just listened to my ... more than I knew. In time, I started to feel alienated by the corporate

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido ... the writing ends because I used the next page and a half to draw the ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  20 buildings. There’s a bike locked to a lamppost, surrounded by ... , but occupied by unfamiliar cars whose makes and models you don ... . After an all-nighter on campus, you try to make your way home through the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... there is nothing wrong with making haikus, and listening to them when they ... your inbox. please come and visit. oh, and by the way, i hope to see all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  mutate more and more as the months go by. The journey to figure out what ... 's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... websites. "So what do you like about compsci then, Cami?" And if I were to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... was going to be making and selling some poetry zines of her work and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014