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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  were strained to see what was about to happen. In a few moments the ... ;Suffolk County Jail" flamed out in the darkness. After a short exhibition, the ... about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  to lose yourself in. oh, you're losing sight, you're losing touch all ... relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I ... or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and ... -captain and parents, got a few thousand dollars in funding to start our school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  aerodynamics testing there, and I was sent on a reconnaissance mission--to get ... does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D-Lab, a group of courses that aims to teach how to perform engineering in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  tune of "If you're happy and you know it" after a full day of talking to ... 's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  birth to a son blah refrigerator blah blah i think i will have to write in the haiku log combinatorics the haikubot is a workaround to post in the ... generated three-line poems with a couple words in each line I’d be bound to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... hard to hear, especially when we seem to be coming from a position of ... the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a

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

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  here do not deserve recognition but rather that in choosing to display only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores ... , infused with careful critical thinking—a tribute to SHASS in style as well

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... example to all and lived a beautiful, full life. These are some snippets from my last conversation with him, which I was so lucky to film about a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  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 ... ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that ... to get into MIT" it's not a question I or anyone else can answer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make ... . Especially this letter. Trying to craft these sentences in a lighter tone feels

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  you are able to meet an MIT admissions officer at your high school, in ... . He's reinforced with a file folder and covered in packaging tape to ... "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get ... being unafraid to be a fool in public with me. It’s been a good run here

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... in a few months. I have three and a half more years to keep trying ... then waiting 40-55 minutes for your final product. It is about knowing a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015