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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  time I went home. Put the quality on 1080 and see the color green unlike ... and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that ... understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the ... the heavy things, but still needed sturdy ground on which to stand. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  on doesn’t matter that much. The choices you make for what to study ... own experiences. So, I would encourage you to embark on the search (and ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even fewer go on to college. School. Otherwise known as my second home. I ... America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I ... buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your ... , a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  changed to toothbrush, if you happen upon me anywhere in the greater Boston ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a place that's supposedly your home to the people who supposedly know you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of ... river on the way to Maseeh. [caption id="attachment_74749" align

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  ’t pay attention to the chatter on College Confidential. Although (arguably ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
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  demons on depression

  

  the second was to have a spiritual experience, such as hearing the voice ... hopeless to reach out. If the disease was a demon, then the cure was an ... late 1800s Galton described aphantasia, the inability to create mental

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  his own to reach his own conclusions. Just look at the Mona Lisa - did ... find the second sentence to be a lot more "down-to-earth." The simple ... ) or a tie-back to your beginning narrative (the second part of the story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics ... 2000 The place: Stata Center, 32-141. The time: a dusky 9:00 AM on the ... building the first rocket to take astronauts to Mars. Some of my classmates

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  . The icon on the browser changes, from the letter M to a spinner. Seconds ... began to reach out instead of bottling them up. When the pandemic evicted ... will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  inside of them for the posts to sit on. [caption id="attachment_104146 ... our margin of error and chose to proceed with starting work on the ... primarily led their construction. The main concern she wanted to focus on with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  documented their murals accordingly. Even so, we won't be able to paint on the ... panels for us to paint on, but...it won't be the same. Preserving culture ... accessibility suits in the rooms on Conner side closer to Burton side. (That

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  admissions decision season is nearing, here's a bonus link to a page on the ... said, I am pretty hosed right now and need to get to work on the four ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to ... self-esteem drops to unprecedented lows. I applied early action, and on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  when I first got on campus. People here were always used to being the top ... ’s interesting to me to reflect back on the things I still do, after three years of ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  about on the blogs. My second question was “what if”. What if I knew what ... applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

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

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... status. This is my second status update on the platform, posted on June 14 ... grave mistake. Naturally, I turned to strangers on the internet to help me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020