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  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  -in-training, I wanted to get an expert's opinion on the project. So, I went to ... interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into ... students getting into big schools because I have to realize discussion about ... your life. So to a lot of people the n word is just another word because

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  allowing her to go to concerts. (Yes, even on a school night.) We would line ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me started on BTS. We waited in line more than [annotation note="40 hours to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  too bleak, especially because Class of '22 still get to take 3 GIRs on P ... , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the ... drop the right one. The feeling of failure that comes when you’re used to

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

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I ... , making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... tiles on the ceiling, your hair brushing the dirty carpet, your feet dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... twenty countries on my own (I suppose if you're bored you can guess a few ... -workers on their exotic business trips, but I did get five paid vacation days

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  essays on end, you need to stand out. Ideally, your essay should pack ... 's focused on you and your stories. Use these opportunities to tell a story ... which department you put down on that blank (I don't know how many emails

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... 3, my floor, seems to like movies. It’s how we relax. Our floor lounge

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... scratch your head and wonder how did they do that? This semester's Epiphany ... keep bubbling to the forefront of your mind when you least expect them

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... figure out how to organize all that information, or even determine the ... want to be, what experiences you need to have to help you get there, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a ... do you mean you’re waiting for your refund to hit?  What do you mean

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  hugging your laptop, which is still on, so it doesn't get stolen; also, you ... how well I did on it. I really couldn't motivate myself to look at the ... go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... about your college applications. You can study like Hermione Granger to get good grades and SAT scores, you can pour your heart into your

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
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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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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of ... Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... . However, the proportion of positive to negative reacts didn't reflect how I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... classes, [like] 18.100B/Real Analysis, to see how well I can do on difficult ... , and how many hours classes are supposed to take based on course

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021