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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  buildings and an hour turns me from a genius into a fool: when I show up at 6 ... was 031).[/annotation]We both lived in EC but didn't know each other at ... people I didn't know at all felt called to text me back. Now, in person, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student Center, and marveled at the Great Dome while standing in Killian ... get what you want. And to deal with whatever life throws at you, no ... depressed, angry, and saddened at myself, this failure, and how it could

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  everyone is at their most hosed, most stressed, most sleep-depped - and yet ... semester at MIT: the tiny defeats, the small victories. Finals, again, sooner ... of the person I always wanted to be. At MIT, hundreds of miles from my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , fails to admit a lot of additional external factors which could be at play ... not a strictly complete description of the philosophy at hand; in fact ... earlier and the days got colder, my motivation drained, bit by bit, until at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  perpetuates the technical bias pervasive at MIT that the value of a field of ... entire list of faculty members added to the display is included at the end

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  and determined what [annotation note="Academics (or at least the ones i ... Arts at that point, I took on a publicity/social role on a whim.  This ... at least it happened. While I helped organize the Rush show, I didn

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  * * * ME: [walking somewhere at night] GROUP OF FROSH: [whispering] ME ... what things are you gonna check out FROSH: well i was looking at the a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... part 2: yarn art hi-res rendering of the board or if you're ever at MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  weeks ago. You all should check it out, and rejoice at the number near the ... -qualified applicants are admitted to at least one top college. Admittedly, the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  , and I hope to see you at CPW or around campus sometime. Please say hi ... ’re playing with your upper limits. A lot of people don’t rejected at all; they

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  failing at life. Rather, I thought that getting in would mean having access ... individual creates his own experience at the Institvte: he takes advantages of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... tallest building in Cambridge, at 20 stories tall). The challenge: how many

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  ’s that. At this point, you can’t change the grades you’ve earned or the ... at home).

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  people who wholly deserve to be at MIT – folks who are passionate, who love ... reflection on you. At all. Accepted, deferred, or otherwise – you are all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  really well angsty haikubot at night is the most beautiful thing i have ... watch them. they're great at haikus We have both moved on, but I still wonder what she went through back then. my first love and i / dated at the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  At MIT, we have pre-registration as well as regular registration ... years of MIT before I actually decided to look at the entire course ... afternoon looking at this catalog now, thinking about what could have been. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  back at these 10 years, several lessons stand out to me. Some of them, I ... campus. I didn’t understand this when I started to look at colleges and to ... through. Then, it’s also important to look closely at the situation, figure

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  MIT. And yet at the same time, in the four years since I've graduated ... I moved back to San Francisco and started medical school at my dream ... experienced at all. I am very grateful for the blogs, the wonderful people I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this ... to the US in September to begin my studies at MIT, my world ... astronaut all the time. I also had to squeal in delight at things I’d never

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014