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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  impromptu lecture on the brilliance of the biochemistry of the human blood ... ; build an igloo on Briggs Field. Take pictures of the Dome; take lots of ... Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... the credibility of the Gospels and the Christmas Story, and on the ... wake up at the crack of dawn. Groups leave together on Sunday mornings

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  permission, of course.) Work on problem sets. Consider procrastinating on ... . Go on walks alone. Go on walks in the middle of the night. Go on walks ... . Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  term. On the other hand, as the end of the term arrived, I was unlucky ... really, and not for long. I stand on the threshold of my room, all of my ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  street. Sometimes I was on campus until 3-4 am and didn’t feel a tinge of ... , of pessimism, of worry, of fear and live in the moment, passing on the ... , I will pass on the message of kindness and of love everyday, whether

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  came on, the music started, and all thoughts of the audience disappeared ... section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  the corners of my eyes. On the inside, nothing. Just emptiness. But ... with headphones on, staring at the computer screen. Perpetual state of ... all of my emotions and plugged up the hole with dirty old rags. On the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

   Massachusetts Avenue is on west campus, everything to the east of Ames Street is on east ... ; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally ... like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College ... ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of ... , of CC chance threads, is true now of AdmissionSplash: No one on this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
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  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
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , through a variety of poor decisions, ended up taking all of them on grades ... question of which futures I would like to leave on the table. Before we get ... , this depends on your definitions of major, measurable, and impact, but in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  in Boston was screening Interstellar a couple of times on Wednesday ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands ... 't remember where - with my instructor supporting me on top of the water with ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... last time I was on an airplane, I was going the other direction - San Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... than it should have, and it's taken on new shades of meaning over the ... labels you try and put on it, you will only come two-thirds of the way to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
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  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you have plenty of hard drive space, so you have no excuse. 22. Take some

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... (ahem, American companies, what's going on?). I used three of those days ... in New York, the vast majority of people you see on Edgware Road are

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010