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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  gracefully swept (or brutally pummeled, depending on what day of the week it ... around. Yup. Somehow, sitting obnoxiously away from me, on the other side ... muttered to myself. Beside me, an elderly woman glared. My bag was on her

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished ... respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... – notifying us that there's free ice cream at the coffeehouse on the third floor

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  on the admissions website even calls it traditional now. Understandable ... McGann. You know, the admissions officer who made the second post on ... citations, some synthesizing, and rampant speculation on my part; I'll make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  cathartic on Friday, November 6, 2015. Today is Sunday, November 6. This is ... ’t really exist. Where I was standing, a picture of a studfinder rests on the ... are we quoting Wikipedia’s article on Vlad the Impaler? An architect

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me working on essays full-time, procrastinating on research papers so that I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  was on the 10-year plan at MIT. It’s secret like the Pirate Certificate ... !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... ” took on such a deeper and broader meaning than I could ever dreamed, but

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• 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…

  

  (Keep voting, guys! Remember, the poll closes at midnight PST on October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th ... router. Someone on Burton 4 declared loudly that it was all due to those

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

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember everything we pushed aside and really feel it again. On and off, I’ve tried ... blurred away as I get older and time goes on. What did she think about on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  ="attachment_48337" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] lotta red on there[/caption] The ... paragraphs and sentences depending on what type of company I'm applying to. I ... you get your resume down, the rest is completed on autopilot. You fill

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  speeches word for word and designs are on our beautiful website (made ... together with your fellow sophomores on your dorm hall ... -shirts (which you can't really see because we all had multiple layers on because

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  project in Ethiopia. When back on campus, I continued to be involved in many ... working on the Pi Day video. And while I was doing these things, I really ... immediately. I would go home in the middle of the day because I was on the verge

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... weekends ago, I went on a retreat with other people from my floor. I remember walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  containers on my counter. On the left was slow-cooked chicken thighs; on the ... website, for example) outside of reading season to reserve our cognitive ... 't realize the degree until that conversation on Saturday night. In my post on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  keep reminding myself is that nothing that happens right now is on just ... . Wayne: Snakes? Matt: Snakes on a Plane? Like the Cartesian plane? CJ: But what about the art? Matt: Sharks. Sharks on a Plane. Wayne: I like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on Friday(!), giving an address on clean energy. As prestigious as MIT is, and ... ). The announcement was on Tuesday, with MIT only finding out about the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  several other church leaders, he went on a retreat somewhere along a ... time lying down in bed, browsing random websites all day. My mom first ... be an engineer". I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  , but over time that was changed to align with the social cohesion on each ... the hall but is secondary information to saying that you live on, say ... 1916. East Campus can be found (somewhat unsurprisingly) on the eastern

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  . Thanks to ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ for reading and giving comments on ... -jokes. One thing I love about the past two Hunts were the registration websites ... about submitting a Monopoly board based on your team. Andy made an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... notoriety for writing #BlackLivesMatter 100 times on his Stanford application ... epitome of her deceit lies in her campaign for a seat on the Cambridge City

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020