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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... about, starting with the depression. (Angelina G. recently wrote a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an undergrad begins with no major, being Undeclared. This is not a coincidence ... TINACBNIEAC by fans.']nothing is ever a coincidence.[/annotation] Okay, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within them. We had a Hackathon last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... elbow grease, carcinogenic automotive lubricant, and a home-brewed mesh of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... , a backstory— CJ: So some way or another I read about Kevin L. ‘19, who was also a floorpi resident, and how he did a speedrun through all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... already a HUGE line. And when we got inside, Kresge was already more than

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... was much, much stronger than any of us anticipated, and watched as a ... —after spiraling into a drug addiction and isolating himself, Taron Egerton as Elton

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... their waxy exterior a different emotion: boredom, support, nervousness

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  helpful. Here goes...       Your friends will change a ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college ... month or two, make a mix cd, mp3 folder, whatever - just make sure you

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  was really a week feels like one incredibly never-ending day. Falling ... living through a pandemic. And we were being forced off campus. With ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami ... worthless Conner 3 residents, and a bloody dormwide revolution ignited when

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  friends from high school when we got into a heated argument about the value ... trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... a story. A good admissions story would be like She worked so hard and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where ... actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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?!

  

  Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La ... him on 4th West last semester while tooling on a 6.046 p-set. This is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... that and began writing this post with a heavy heart. … Monday, April 15 ... floor of building 3 with a graduate student and we were both working

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  that a couple did, but that's beside the point.) Many have had their own ... that a professor can be a mentor and a listening ear and not just an instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  was a bit different from this year's. There were two short answer ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... followed a flurry of phone calls - people telling me they were accepted

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009