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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  a new sort of dilemma. You'll find a balance (and maybe stop lurking ... a cupcake shop, buy a new pair of boots, or preorder that book ... – sing badly, try new video games and board games, doodle on scrap paper

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  class ring. Many of my friends carry $10 and $20 daily, while I get $5 on ... pee his pants impressed that I'd climbed so high on the life ladder. I ... about and working on my essay. And reworking it. Over and over again. The

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students hail from every corner of the globe: New Zealand to New York City ... Program at the University of Auckland halfway across the world in New ... like, and gain a new perspective on research and broaden academic journey

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  this morning about the history of the blogs and their influence on the ... on about, say, a sandwich I ate at the student center, or a new haircut ... This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . There's also OfCourse, a website that uses algorithms™ to recommend which ... classes will post the syllabus on the class website around registration ... Continuing my tradition of posting appropriate blog posts five months

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... than biking on the shoulder On the other hand, much of Vassar St (another ... Orleans, and elsewhere. If you're on the West Coast, you may have heard of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which ... breakthrough on the previous occupant of the room. Digging some more through old ... ="aligncenter" width="2304"] This is probably one of the oldest murals on hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , I would say that this was a year of trying new mediums and materials ... -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and ... group of people on a project with so many moving pieces (literally!), and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... classes, new friends, and new paths to explore. If there are any of you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  totally lost on me, until I read this book, and began getting an idea of ... down the stages of his illness and speculating on what triggered his ... ’s theories on the vanity of wealth, and the relevance of the influence of older

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  fairly nostalgic on the eve of his graduation. So he made two more things ... more of everything Charles has made at his website, http ... . Congratulations on your graduation, Charles - and thanks for all of the dangerously

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... beginning of the semester, I was lucky enough to work on an independent ... . I was lucky to have received an immense amount of support early on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  ='See this Tech issue; on the bottom of the second column in the top article.']on ... prospective freshmen" message on top of its issues during Campus Preview from ... receptions, tours of athletic facilities and UROP labs, and a discussion on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , sweet-smelling clothes out of the dryer. It was mindblowing. Fast forward ... chunk of which was liquid nitrogen ice-cream. I jumped on a large bouncy house and listened in on upperclassmen, who at the time had the aura of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished ... finished working on the McCormick article. In the interest of saving myself a ... of April Fools' Day, the cursor on all of the screens suddenly grew to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  apartment. Lots of people sign year-long leases on apartments (including those ... purple-leaved tree on our block of Commonwealth Avenue was located on the ... "]"lawn".[/annotation] Inside the house, on the wall above the head of the dining room table

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of ... actually worked on either of those things, instead of writing this blog]. # I woke up at 8:30, got out of class around 3, ate lunch on the way to chem

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these

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

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  . Professor Paxson is discussing the influence of culture on the individual. I ... effect of bewitching on these dynamics. It's a small class (seven students ... general bangs, bruises, and muscle pain. On the upside, several of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  shifts, and one day a jar of alfredo sauce cracked on the assembly line and ... trail on a mountain in Oregon. I miscalculated slightly how fast I could ... forgive me but the fantasy I started on was pseudo-European, full of castles

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020