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  beauty is overrated

  

  . None of this is to say that I don’t adore beauty the same way anybody ... beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... reflection. All the material is there- how you feel about your life, what ... yourself as well: Try and get a good grasp of what the card is saying

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  believe the way you teach people to be responsible is to give them ... , something you learn best by doing: indeed, to be civically responsible is to ... , educa-tional, and labor. There is a concerted effort to increase the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  describe, the best way to think of it is further back behind the alveolar ... you're done here, you should be able to make out most of the above text ... help you visualize the locations of where your tongue is when making the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  to get your work done. The Students are very cooperative. The key is ... up. But The Land of MIT is a new planet altogether. And here's a quick ... assembled by the Students. The raw material came from the land that is usually

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  ’s journey with Henk Rogers to get the game out of Soviet Russia. One of the ... I could never get anywhere close to his scores. He eventually quit the ... scoring system is unique. [Kayode doesn’t know how to get perfect clears

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  reading section is to read quickly, and that the only way to read quickly is ... students to get the best and hardest parts and a lot of unnecessary pressure ... to-blog list, because it is truly special. But for the purposes of this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  , resources, queer groups at MIT, and more. This is an awesome to way to get ... yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool ... ! This is THE FIRST gay event I went to ever, actually during orientation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  who thinks that the only way to learn a lot is to take a lot of classes ... ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  feed ingredients, what is the best way of making a reactor for ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... . Unlike most colleges, we get President's day off despite the fact that it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  's just the way it is. Ask anyone. I've known and understood this since I ... 't going to let me get away so easily. She dragged me to the information ... quickly broken up by the teachers." Name one...per week? Or per day? Wait

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  managed to plug his way through the olympic fanfare and "Rubber Duckie," so ... to name the dragon "Angelina," because it is both hot and kind of scary ... answers to some of the more general ones that might get asked again: Kate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the ... across the front of the student center and almost all the way to Mass Ave ... for them all anyway. I pushed my way to the muffin baskets, which were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... 's just what everyone does." The bottom line here is that it is okay to slow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  play. I did my best to increase the sense of tension, even when it felt ... communicating a feeling to the observer. When your words on the page—nothing more ... : Playwrights’ Lab in the spring, where I’ll get to collaborate with a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you're ... they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... studying something that will get people to think I'm smart, I'm disappointed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  consecutive days now and the noise is making it impossible to sleep as I live on ... window yesterday is certainly being put to good use. The view has changed ... , sometimes, all you need to do is ask. Because within the day, I received 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  legendary new unit of measurement, the smoot (now incorporated by Google ... sure to check if there is a Summer Send-Off Event in your area HERE ... . The marker points to the location of the MIT Club of Central Ohio Summer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  once home to the Prime Meridian and is the world's oldest working ... of Neptune. Arago's telescope is seen on the roof just to the left in ... , and along the way, I got to make lots and lots of plots. I spent my

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  and one letter that has to be included. It gets more fun the more you play, because you get to know the quirks and idiosyncrasies of the person ... the strength to fill it, so all I can do is try to block it out. Like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020