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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ...  Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  finding place Note: these are some retrospective thoughts on my experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  aiming for here. On the last day before Caltech left, as a parting gift ... munching on the starbursts I snatched from the dispenser, she had already cut ... a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... few notes out. Fail. He would wave play on, like nothing happened, while ... myself on autopilot, and shot my hand in the air. On the occasions that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and ... Blacksmithing and Physical Metallurgy. !! At 7pm on Monday nights, I change ... get to work on our own projects. Since I've only been to three sessions

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on ... where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the ... internship in Europe in my field of study by November with minimal effort on my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and ... ." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session ... officer? That is, someone admitted on a very tipped scale towards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like ... on ESP history, since ESP is a decades-old organization, and make sure

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  preference): Stay in a dorm on MIT's campus. Last summer, MIT opened only ... apartment. Lots of people sign year-long leases on apartments (including those ... because (depending on the FSILG) the facilities were better and the rent was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  about how fun or less fun each one was. On accuracy, a common thought ... “personality” across all circumstances. On 'funness', I love Elissa’s opinion on ... (pisces, cancer, aries, virgo, etc.) based on your date of birth in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... I’ve also been doing a lot of concertgoing (relevant zine lol)—on ... literally 0 times) at 10PM on Thursday. (It's not fun, in case you were

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  (on a real stall), mockup review, final alpha prototype on stage.   ... ’ve been working on over the semester. But while the presentations are ... toilet on stage), the products don’t start out that way. The theme of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... . Their difficulty can be so asymmetrical. You spend ten hours stuck on a ... nine, one of my high school teachers took a couple of us on an out

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... -bound females who perform well on SAT math also perform correspondingly well in ... otherwise equal intelligence, his conclusion based not on sexism but on

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... impression that your college application was literally entirely based on your

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  ~"]prefrosh[/annotation] are moving in! It started on Friday, when the athletes arrived. Today, on Tuesday, the international students and FPOPs will come ... Yellowstone and New Hampshire, have fun :D"][/annotation] And on Saturday

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... brushing my teeth and washing my face, throwing on clothes, fussing with my frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what ... want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I’m especially interested in docking and landing spacecraft -- landing rovers on

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  was this surreal sense of joy in the air. If you ask any student on ... the impact COVID-19 is having on communities is unimaginable, but I’d like to take some time to shed a different light on the situation. That

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020