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  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  few paragraphs, scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the link ... chapter. If you decide to read only one of the novels I mention, my first ... -written. It’s enough that I think it’s worth reading at least the first third of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  I've been wrong this whole time, and I could never spend the rest of ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... teach a bunch of aliens how to play baseball. It's like 50 pages long and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  provided good answers to a lot of the questions about the process): The ... provide a lot more of information about myself other than what's on the ... that is possible. Most students take the most rigorous version offered of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  — the feeling of thinking something is impossible, and then doing it ... felt happier than I had in a long time, more put-together, whole. The world felt right for the first time since covid ripped me away from Europe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  robot gods. Tonight, I am sifting through pages of fiction, recalling the ... I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm [annotation note = "I am actually ... of American ensemble, and the light is softer now. I like it. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  and take their minds off the constant demands of an MIT education. Bad ... take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  the source of positivity that you wished you had been the first time ... Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  progress through the same 100-page Strathmore pad of paper. Weeks slip by without any drawings, and its first few pages date all the way back to my ... enlarge and “print” the photos, there’s a whole separate process of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  the first weekend of real performances. I thought acting would be like ... didn’t fully grasp the concept of musical theater until college. Hamilton ... plot from these songs; being ignorant of the fact that they were actually

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  shipments tendered by or for you[...] Any other use of [the] tracking systems ... As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times. Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  ," written completely in Japanese for the benefit of the issei (first ... been emerging a lot - this is my LAST fall first day of classes - this is my LAST fall first day of lecture - this is my LAST time pretending to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  whole new batch of brass rats! Each year, the Brass Rat has a slightly ... more pictures of the event, check out the Facebook page! ... of waiting, we finally got our class rings! The brass rat isn't just

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  the red-line, even though for the first day it was broken) and of course ... 't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that ... think the problem stems from not having a good word for "friend of a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  . We had a roller coaster, in the style where one hangs below the track rather than sitting in a car on top of the track. We had the car-on-top-of-the-track ... rode the rides that people built. Most of what we build is made of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  currently in the process of building the first 2-stage collegiate spaceshot ... to check it out. My first introduction to RT was at CPW. One of the ... . Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  getting me the physical CD of this album for my birthday.  Fav. Tracks ... the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... wrestler that the singer (and presumed protagonist of the album) watched as a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198 pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ... in stride and call it a day. Friday was the first full day of summer

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  the whole tournament! Though even if we hadn’t won, my opinion of this ... working robot - I loved every second of it. My Cohort On the first day I ... to Newbury, creating long notes lists of all the restaurants you want

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  hobby. One of my friends worked at a convenience store the whole summer ... cobblestoned plazas and taking in the sights. However, guess what some of the ... proposals and applications. Aye, it's that time of the year again. If

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  dining. But first, we talked about the politics of GMO: the US, unlike the ... be possible for international students to track the progress of theirs ... university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006