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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... get from night to night, you shrug and say one to ten hours, muttering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually ... ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for ... try it sometime! If you have questions about how to get started just

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about ... seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live ... floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1 ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  "]basics of cooking,[/annotation] but it's very easy to get caught up in the ... way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... , who loved and supported me and told me that if I wanted to get out, I ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being ... don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  -shirt. You don’t remember getting this shirt. You decide to look up the company ... smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a ... . You’ve been inside since 11am, trying to get your circuit to generate

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night, really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get ... deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the

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

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... to get a positive response. Each time, I have to bite my tongue to stop ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... get to build and solidify connections that will last way past graduation ... class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it.” → I had to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... understand what makes them who they are, and why. Getting to know their ... applying to MIT, all of you who will be getting that life-changing decision

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle ... 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

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my

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

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For many years, many Cambridge residents had limited access to healthy, fresh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021