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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  : Boring 101 Honors Boring How to Be Pretentious Polo Shirts (Intro ... (oh, by the way: the first few weeks of freshman classes involve A Lot ... make the time commitment to them, as I'm taking (what I consider to be

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  crystals. The colors and shapes are as pure as can be.   Above left: To me ... convenient dust cap and the rotating end can be connected to a rotary switch to ... forever. 31 hours after we initially intended to be moved out, Cory and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  most definitely many, many red apples I would be unable to see or wouldn ... person to be a little bit obnoxious ... a little bit inappropriate or ... good way--I didn’t often have to deal with discriminatory or questionable

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  's in our best interest to do what we know needs to be done. Sometimes, by ... had my way, College Confidential would be wiped off the face of the ... the book that was going to be covered in lecture, go through online

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
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  50 Reflections

  

  fall apart: thank you. I will be indebted to you forever, in so many ways ... celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... has passed. This narrative isn't likely to be particularly linear. But

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no ... something that needs to be said: current students have biases. Whether we like ... end all be all. We, current students, are meant to be purely

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and ... and I were only able to finish the mechatronic parts of the project by

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting ... to go to a yoga studio on our way back, so we kept walking to Central ... of pain and guilt. Depression can be vastly different from person to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  looking at a computer, I'd be spending even more trying to read tiny essays ... into the admissions process, we'd be able to say "yes" to so few. Sleep ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is

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

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  . If I went to the other school, though, I'd be surrounded by people I ... way. There's nothing he can do to be both of his future selves, because ... 'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather be closer to or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  be by an MIT student, and as much as possible get a different artist ... card, I wanted the cards to be as different from each other as possible ... doc with some details that I gave to artists. This turned out to be a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to ... , the Margaret Cheney was smaller and many repairs needed to be managed ... to occur, and working with MIT leadership, allowed the space to be

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  water. This will probably still be true, and in some ways is actually ... to water will be safer for these children. People regularly die digging ... how children can fall or be pulled into shallow wells by the weight of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  equivalent must be given by another. reptilian-conspiracy ‘17: You go to ... take notes. Your second class is having an exam, and it seems to be going ... 20 buildings. There’s a bike locked to a lamppost, surrounded by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  didn’t think about how my grade was being affected by it; to be frank, I ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... going to be alright. A few days later, I had a nice OX lined up on my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... went along, and brought my little sister. She was excited to be there ... beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  find our way home to our clacking radiators and the rain against the ... . One original recipe I mangled to come up with mine. It would probably be way better than mine if you care enough to do it properly.   Steak I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  , in a way, to being woken up by sunlight, and seeing everything as ... people who aren't there. And yet, every time I pass by a room I know to be ... , and I'll be graduating. That's probably the closest I'll ever come to a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab ... calculus -- and why? Not because I had grown to understand that being smart was not the end-all be-all, but because I had proven to my classmates

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021