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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling ... "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges ... to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I ... now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  "The Smiths." No one needs to see that in the background of my Zoom call ... sounds. One of the dogs, who is a visitor, keeps pushing the door open to ... piles of stuff being thrown away/donated due to the sudden moveout

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... feeling to the rest of the nervous system. When whatever blockage is removed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of ... school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... ."]rush week,[/annotation] Kenneth went to most of MIT’s fraternities and asked

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  autumn half-marathon to force myself to keep training. I was so scared of ... strangers, to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where we, and thousands more of us ... I had been matched to a research group led by an intellectual hero of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve roughly a dozen rounds of roughly a dozen puzzles each, of kinds ranging from jigsaw puzzle to Sudoku ... in participation compared to years past. It's the golden era of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use ... , just long enough for someone of my stature (footnote: read: short) to lie ... youtube."]#vanlife[/annotation] videos, and I wanted to be out of Tucson but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  -hour class dedicated to analyzing the soundtrack of the video game Celeste ... things I didn’t know I was interested in. I wanted to learn about all of them. I wanted to take all of them! Part of me wished that I was back in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  creativity of applying centripetal force to poi and staff in time to music. Let ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always ... . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  : Professors' names will go to websites about them, not their email addresses ... will probably impress you more than the title of the award, not to ... picture 2 to picture 3, all in 5 minutes of anthropological discussion :P

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
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  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
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  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 / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... Monday, simply because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in any of my ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... out who I am. I don't need to assimilate tons of information accumulated

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here ... pull off the kinds of academic feats you're used to. Working full-tilt in ... : There may be a lot of them). You should strive to be a completely

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a ... of jobs, from purely technical to purely artistic to literally

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018