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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to a responsibility or a relationship. The word commit is from Latin ... evolution, in much the same way a person goes through the Kubler-Ross model of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  a song for four minutes and it'd feel like twelve. Time is not real ... a "nap", because I told a friend that I'd be free for a video call at ... friends. The next day a friend came over and we spent the afternoon just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  good at cooking. consider this an a d v a n c e d cooking post. (because ... depression.[/annotation] [annotation note="cj: citing a paper in a blog post is ... opinion is biased against American cuisine as a whole, considering that my

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

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... asked that, in this case, a disciplinary action associated with meaningful

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B. Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... Salvador Luria Ivan Getting '33 was a primer developer of GPS Bose Corporation, founded by MIT Professor Amar Bose Ellen Swallow Richards, a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  same school, unless there is a recruited athlete, legacy or some other special case for whom inconsistency can be excused. At a fourth institution ... welcomed warmly into a community that admits fewer that 10% of its applicants

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder ... your brother is only a year younger than you, but if you reference your

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read ... heartfelt. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany of sorts. I finally experienced ... out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  weekends ago, I went on a retreat with other people from my floor. I remember ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being ... and a cover with tiny wrinkles and rips. When I entered middle school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  a laid-back game that gives you a great chance to socialize while you play. Play a tournament for bragging rights, or make a fool of yourself ... RHOP Random House of Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this ... updates." I got a variety of responses (representing about 5% of our class), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
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  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood in a city. Vines reach up into the darkness. Trees whisper above us ... Furniture Hardware, in the fourth photo, has a vast display of doorknobs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks ... will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless ... times, because time management is such a necessity. Sometimes I tell

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... , not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most ... students with a full year of credits (96 units) at the end of first-year fall

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021