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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... shifts to “Why Can’t We Be Friends.” The action calms and the two sides ... busy and wistfully looking around. I wonder if it would be weird to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  the way we are, and to convince ourselves and everyone that—a nutria or ... . That we exist and it could not be but so. But really it is very close to ... Europe to be farmed for fur, and when the furs went out of style the nutria

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  post will be a way for you to start processing all of those thoughts, a ... the way that decisions work: the only way that you have a chance to be ... hard to hear, especially when we seem to be coming from a position of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  bought some coils of wire to be our springs, labeled appropriately with ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I ... to MIT, I was afraid of being “Nisha’s little sister” forever; we

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

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  only way to describe us is “formerly returned students.” This year, there ... on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some ... many returners this time that the staff members need to be shunted off to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... ask, does a fluorescent light need to be controlled? You have likely ... through the bulb, it needs to be able to jump from one atom of metal to the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and ... to the GECD. To try and entice you a different way, I will leave you ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  usually either running around the Charles, on my way to the MIT gym, or running around the Charles on my way to the gym. Ethan Zuckerman, who was my ... cases 5PM-6PM: answer email, do stuff that needs to be done around the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  stitched the more and more I tried to figure out a way to monetize cross ... free time!? Patterns were an obvious way to make some money but I don ... fancy legit pin I got. My biggest cross stitch moment had to be when I

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

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... lesson about trying to get projects done during the semester. It may be ... wrong, and I had to be OK with that. So, I kept it simple. I would have

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  had fun writing these! Short pieces fast and easy and a great way to ... : College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh This post was tough to edit! Both ... being meta. And now double meta. Now I just need to take a screenshot of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be ... are valedictorians. Or, to paraphrase a line from Llewellyn: being a ... whatever data we do release. If we released admit rate by state, it would be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... came was very rewarding, so i felt that i wanted to give back in some way ... what mit’s would be, because i didn’t want to think about it. i didn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... from community colleges, and others find their way to MIT from private ... students, and all of them are exceptional. As a way to share a glimpse into

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

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  somewhere new and starting fresh that enables people to be more open-minded. I ... measurements: it's very vibes-based (I used to be annoyed at my mom doing this ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  us expand the list of places to be sad, so fill out this survey and let ... , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... scientist, but I'm also something of an engineer, and I've learned to be one

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you ... tell you who was going to be admitted to what schools, you wouldn’t need

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008