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  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the ... , rather than relying on prey to fall into its pit. Additionally, because the ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands ... enough to keep our torsos comfortably above water, unless we made the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... top-notch student who had all the qualifications to succeed at MIT. So ... just presented to the committee as objectively as possible. I had to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... end: according to the author, an entire eighty percent of well

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  . I'm not quite done with it; I still need to finish the tapers on all ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  to take part. In addition to the confinement of hours like Gloria noted ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... convenient for those living in [annotation note='now referring to the dorm

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  /mysteryhunt. The community used to be based on large-scale in-person events such as ... beginning of the hunt, with less puzzles available to work on, but Galactic ... people went and worked on that, while we waited for the power to come back

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  encouraged to work on other things while at the desk, given that when someone ... students who call out on behalf of the school to speak with alumni about ... universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... from a line of rope that stretches from the tower on the left to the ... you can read up on at the MIT Hack Gallery but I'm going to skip to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  xylophone, we decoded the combination lock and moved on to the rest of the ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... Reif had dared to escape the horrors! Despite the fact that I’ve been

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting ... wrote the code to make the panorama: basically, you detect features and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school ... , the "fine print" on our acceptance letter includes the following clause

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos ... compare Melis' to mine you can note the differences - I guess significant

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... diseases and neurological injuries using the stem cells native to the brain

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  communicate what was going on to the outside world. It felt personal and ... like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... roommate, Lydia K., that I was leaving. On the outside, I felt tears prick at

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  on the phone was "Have you ever planned to kill the president ... morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an ... ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012