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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  Simmons Hall, originally built as a "Meditation Room" and where we held our ... . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... or tiring it got, but I also started valuing and appreciating things

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  injuries, and 3) a tendency to leave several decks scattered over our room ... thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your application, stressing and laboring over tiny details. If you’re like me, you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  inhumane, also. Our group DreaMIT and our immigrant youth movement shows us ... much of our political and religious and academic leadership, have ... A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• 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?

  

  , and I live with my charming rocket scientist husband Adam '07 and our ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my ... categories. Lab and other school things I do less often than lab Since I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  model, our monitor and keyboard set-up, and many tools and wires up to ... wore red laser-protective glasses to protect our eyes. We blasted edm and ... parallel and our team mentor was plugging in power and gnd. Each day I was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , and we write again. Sometimes our assignments are as simple as a seven ... 've been a little lax on posting and how our lives are suddenly so similar ... think, and it's all of our lives that we need to think of as writers, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  was soloing whether I wanted to or not. And boy, was it good for me. I ... , seconds before our song began - and suddenly wondered what the heck I was ... it before and you're definitely bad at it or c) you think people would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  discussing one applicant or another. Hundreds upon thousands of lives and ... and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time ... eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  they sent an email and when I retrieved their data, or for people who ... . Formally, for an event or truth A and an event or truth B, Bayes’ Theorem is ... and divided by the overall probability of B. In our case, armed with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  measurements longer down the line, and it caused our overall footprint to ... . When all of our ground frames were assembled and placed onto the blocks ... our margin of error and chose to proceed with starting work on the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  understanding of our fields, a fantastic tolerance for failure and late nights ... ’ll look back on these four years as the best years of our lives and the ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  , and it can feel overwhelming. Call or write someone you care about; they ... (or anyone) down. 28) Remember to eat, even (and especially) when you ... they have the time. And/or seek out cats. Animals love unconditionally

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  happened, absolutely, but please don't scold or threaten, you just make our ... I made and the questions I missed, I realized that it was just one or ... you ever plan on using them or not. AND . . . not only do they force you

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  contributions or the work of other admissions officers, our roles in the admissions process are far easier than the tasks that students and their ... make the choice between enrolling at MIT or one of our similarly

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
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  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  schedules, lunch menus, and graphs activity in the interns' channel, or a ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  class in our senior year. I also became BC's Vice-President and joined ... holding the event and for storing things like our speakers. Each floor also ... , TT was a lot. Every time someone advocated for us and some of our

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
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  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  Find Them. We had met to discuss my interest in astronomy, and our ... a night or two, and fell in love with it. I returned it the next week ... comes to MIT and leaves knowing what he or she loves, then we have done

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  the prototype of our self-opening and locking restroom door, and nothing ... designing and fabricating our product, and I'm not about to present it in ... during our presentation, which is pretty uncommon for a 2.009 demo, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  oddly located, and requires either a car, a shuttle, or a 2+ mile long ... for $5, and that's on top of our already low prices," said Rauch ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021