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  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  admitted, and those who are not - to concentrate on what you wanted out of an ... day? I'll start: To have something of my design land on Mars." I ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
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  demons on depression

  

  . He threatened to kick me out of home if I insisted on being an atheist ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  . There is a vague community of MIT-adjacent people interacting on Twitter ... come, you're constantly on the verge of drowning, wishing you could ... together. Some of us go home, some of us set out on adventures, and some of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week ... of food that your peers cook on a regular basis during the semester

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches ... broken by a series of buzzes and dings as our phones simultaneously

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ,[/annotation] at least from the experiences of others that I've read up on: one ... mortar and pestle MW: i chewed on in my roce and i had the oils of this ... ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  Okay, okay, so I've totally been slacking off on updates on my ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... college, MIT was on my list of “well, it’d be cool but it’ll never happen ... indication of how successful you will be in the future. Do not fixate only on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  absurd amounts of money in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street and ... protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics ... 2000 The place: Stata Center, 32-141. The time: a dusky 9:00 AM on the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  physics calculations. Lots of teamwork and designing. Also get to go on ... Rico) to work on a project that would improve the quality of life in his ... connecting with the world outside of MIT, and where I could actually work on

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  some definition of pop music. Or we could go on an adventure. Many of my ... I've changed my bio, which you can view on my author page, once every ... Joshua, or that I have two first names, because a lot of Filipinos have two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... more often it's a merry-go-round. I spent a lot of time on photography in ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  who look like you. Those on my side of the counter may mistake this ... of the struggles I had in leaving home and being on my own for the ... between you and them. Don’t find yourself on the other side of the cashier

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  the end of orientation week, the student groups put on a show. The first ... Content warning: mention of suicide, discussion of death. Quotes are ... going?[/caption] One I remember the dozens of things people told me about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , would have thought had she been on my end of the line. I’m not sure why ... of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... decision actually determined some aspect of our futures, which was scary to ... just the start of receiving these types of decisions; after it come

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018