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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to ... hours of 10pm and 2am Saturday night. I was about to put on athletic ... . Another project took over 3 ovens on each of the second, third, fourth, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... group, we pulled week-long mixing sessions where I rotated on 4-5 hours of ... .) But anyways, back to the original point of this story. It was on this

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever ... . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... self-esteem drops to unprecedented lows. I applied early action, and on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... the math section of the SATs, a mere 710 on the SAT II Bio test (why ... doses of optimism. So I focused on what I had going for me: sincere

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  , my dream is that all of my trainees go on to succeed. How to work with ... done for that version of me. And life moves on.   What’s the last TV show ... of advice that I should focus on my lab being known for "that one thing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  of the winning teams' strategies. My team is planning on doing this ... Harvey (a student with a stick-on mustache). Two of my favorite questions ... climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  cliffs on campus, but this frosh is standing on top of the Great Dome. (don ... on Instagram. The magician; blowing a witch’s ball out of glass. Using ... using lightboard videos. 8.01 and 8.02 are shown on the pillars of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... 's going on with both of these majors. For the edification of frosh and ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized ... that place a premium on diversity utilize a much broader definition of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... 21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of ... you. Different places suit different people (which is true not only of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  their majors by visualizing it on a very large piece of plywood. Each ... , wander around the comparative media studies office on the third floor of ... your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  literally live next to you. I was not on top of things and was mostly unaware ... perspective on MIT; the different scenes, as well as the type of people I want ... finding place Note: these are some retrospective thoughts on my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to ... the frame of the picture. There were two people wearing harnesses on rope, around 5 people on each of the couches, probably more on the table

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... , but that each and every applicant has been given a lifetime's worth of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  found one of the yoshitomo nara pieces i had picked out still hanging on ... last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  fences, and we live on opposite sides of campus, so our social circles ... belong here or not, I was admitted, so I’m intent on making the most of it ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an ... of yourself". I look back on those days and feel tempted to laugh at ... part of a public art display: On the stand there was the following

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015