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  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  need to make sure that the people they admit are able to do the work ... and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  Every time I check my email (incredibly, only once every few days) I ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an ... arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to ... , Gabrielle Union’s We’re Going To Need More Wine, and Dan Lyon's Disrupted ... to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  :30 Nerdy Singalong It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much ... solar energy being released onto land. Fortunately, humans are designed to be able to withstand this temporary decrease in solar energy. Join us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... trying to do work on days i don't have the energy to, i could make my ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Requirements. I needed it to graduate. Another funny thing about classes at MIT ... too busy trying not to drink too much chlorine. Ultimately, on a purely ... Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  does. But because of COVID-19, my ability to run an in-person study where ... words about the numbers that I see. I still need to practice the ... During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’ve changed. Then, I need to account for my own “MIT-tinted googles”: for the ... and out. I can navigate almost anywhere without needing to stop and ... within a mile of MIT. And while there’s much more to explore (down in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  opportunities, and to seek out serendipity in as much as you can. You can ... put on the blinders. Never try to wrest too much control of your life ... , somewhere off stage left. All you have to do is keep the energy going. Keep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  homes they cherish so much that they fight fiercely to protect them ... has a lot of memorabilia that we needed to figure out how to store ... scheduled to close on March 23rd, but since there was so much confusion, its

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  remember to reach out to people when it looks like they need help, to always ... back up without me pressing start. I replied to emails,[annotation note ... ,[/annotation] and started sorting out spring semester things. I tried to begin this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually ... much. Stitching custom pieces was almost impossible to turn a profit on ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  gathering the materials we would need to build the framework for our walking ... needed to make the walker based off of our client's body dimensions. We calculated the center of mass to determine the length of the supports we needed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  can to celebrate being done, even if it’s a Monday. As much of a ... nights too. As a wise friend once said, you’re only allowed to disappear ... heart-breaking reality. And it’s important to remember just how much

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the ‘Gram? Yes, he would.” Then I muster up the energy to go to see ... for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  very familiar to a lot of people on campus simply because of how much he ... reverting back to a comp sci major. But pretty much, whenever it comes to ... waiting for my plane.  And it was once I got in my seat that I decided to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  image 1 pixel to the right? Does it even matter, when all I can envision ... together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor to take the time to write to a colleague to tell him how much an ... letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  to hold her up as well as hold people up when they need it.     ... moment touched her so much that it solidified her decision to become a ... , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  inbox once I had downloaded them was something I was well trained to do ... shifts (I admit nothing)), and then using an external harddrive to transfer ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016