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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... my school's community I've had plentiful opportunities to challenge ... them, aspiring to integrate individual qualities that they've developed

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  the doubt left that I was smart. Maybe this would’ve been fine, except ... . INCAPABLE. DEPENDENT. Got a low score on a test that I knew I could’ve done ... doing. --- By all the metrics I’ve fallen short of in the past, this

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  a little awkward too, but one thing I’ve learned is that we should not ... . “Ghosting”: when someone suddenly stops talking to you or interacting with you--they’ve ... classmates too, e.g. “John is taking Unified so they’ve been ghosting our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  particular order, the things i've done in the past few weeks stage makeup

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a ... (or avoid) what we've learned. My take is that CMS is about tinkering with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... receives, and i also realized that my gmail storage was filling up rapidly. i've

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  all the memories I’ve made, from joining the lightweight women’s crew ... , and meals with friends I’ve made in clubs and in my sorority. 4pm ... our annual concert SpringFest! Subin: I’ve managed to strike a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  's like and to represent our dorm. By the end of February, we've submitted ... around. I've been at home for two months at this point, and I'm beginning ... unapologetically myself, something I've carried with me into MIT. It feels to me that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  You’ve done it. You’ve hit submit. Now what? You might imagine that your application goes spiraling into a dark, anonymous vortex, and after 2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  get on with my life and focus on staying healthy, but i've definitely ... fall in the next few weeks. i've spent the past few years as an

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  an activity/club/whatever you love is the best feeling ever because you’ve ... seem cool because you’re only seeing us after we’ve gone through all of ... days that you’re going through. That we’ve been through that stuff means

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , and we've told you all about it. So what's the deal? This art piece ... ...how should you choose your major? Maybe try this BuzzFeed quiz. I've been

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  help improve someone's life. I've always felt that most hackathons are ... ... but I had one of the best Saturdays I've had in a long time. It was

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

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot ... Astronomy in Heidelberg. I’m excited and terrified! Even though I've graduated

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters pass through the 'tute - Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  ’s right. I’ve reached out to a number of physics professors (I can't speak ... anytime to chat. I was scared of losing this accessibility. I've learned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 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"

  

  one activity that you've always sort of secretly wanted to do but are scared of trying because a) think you might be bad at it or b) you've done

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

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I ... get to work on our own projects. Since I've only been to three sessions

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... if they've seen me on ESPN.") Adam discovered MIT during his sophomore

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005