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  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
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  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... engineering can be colorful: ^from 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  silly. The truth is, and maybe you can't see this yet, it's going to be ... ," moments. It was difficult to decide whether optimism or pessimism was the ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... can. The pre-med students that I met during my CPW were all down-to ... 2013. What It's Been Like to be Pre-Med at MIT I like it. I feel like

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first ... . 7:28pm: It's tough when writers have to balance their articles with

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to ... , it shouldn't surprise you to hear that there have even been some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  we rely on technology despite its gaping holes. I don't mean to take ... 't know how to run a company, but he also really lucked out in that it seems ... collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time ... .) But anyways, back to the original point of this story. It was on this ... we admit that kid? What happened to that other person? Did he make it

  • 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

  

  didn't like it. I eventually transferred to yet another school. But I don ... knew from my friends and my research that it was going to be. This was an ... . As I thought about it, I felt I didn't want to leave behind my family

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... ability to check multiple boxes should make it easier to identify one's race ... . While I try to avoid being overly cynical, it has been my sense that very

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  thought, maybe it’s missing something. What happened to the other colleges ... rendering of the lineart. I sent it to Winnie, who was already at Metropolis and ready to vectorize it. By the time I slid open the door and was

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  help. Basically, it's hard just to walk down the street at MIT without ... , but you really need to realize how cool it is. Talking to some of my ... to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  museum's function coordinator asked for our permission to use a photo from ... sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  you the specifics because I took notes and you can listen to it yourself ... to watch. It doesn't go into scramble mode very often, the only other times I've seen it are immediately prior to CPW and before the Dalai Lama

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  weeks to happen). my hope is that it can serve as one more resource, a ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... unreasonable stress. i guess it's my contribution to the many student

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  -ish October, each District emails or calls its Finalists to let us know that we ... parts of the process - because it forced me to think critically about my ... (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  and classes and friends, and it’s wonderful. I can’t say I’ve become ... great to be able to rely on someone on campus, but it’s also great that I ... it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020