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

  

  the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... favorite part of CP✱, so far, though, is the CP✱ Discord. one quarter of ... generate some haiku. But the neat thing is that some of Robo-CJ’s poems are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  that struck the core of the conversation. “My name is Austin Thompson ... questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a ... , every piece of the story. my notes on the flyer... brochure? pamphlet

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am ... words, I think MIT can take much of the credit for the shift we've seen on ... the money part work for you. Period. Stu Schmill is one of the most

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  hour, so the job couldn't possibly take *that* much time out of your week :) ... History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting ... that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  'm struggling with. Notably, the fear of the future is all too familiar. The fear ... speed. It’s possible that my anxiety is the product of being at a ... of the future into a terrifying one. 2 So I try to pick apart what is

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... ). New York is a great city, and there has long been a Battle of the Titans ... approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an

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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  done? Perfect fit. And the feeling of StreetPass-ing someone is just so ... ’s the point of that? These are much better. Kindle - With a half ... that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  of shame in having “failed”: Shame is really easily understood as the ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  anymore. But I think one of the benefits of this time of year is that I ... time on this and not that? What is the significance of a shot from this ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially

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

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

  

  determinist by any means. But there is still something to the law of the ... selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  the renewal is supposed to entail. Most of the refurbishments are meant ... lot of things have changed since that time—so much is in flux right now ... Vassar's construction is incomplete. Also, we want to enable the Class of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  answer, because MIT is the community you will spend most of your time in ... a few anecdotes to give you a picture of what the city is like. And ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  this year, a lot of the normal fanfare is pretty much nonexistent. I feel ... film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  big deal). Basically: academic failure is not the end of the world, even ... nervous because I share a lot of qualities with the author's young self ... graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... moment, promising prospects, but still little that is concrete. In the post

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  is part of why my vlogging experiment for the Admissions Blogs is so ... is the only organ that can regrow large amounts of cells in vivo and ... production assistant (PA) as Wikipedia defines it, is “a member of the film

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  fantasy. REX is the beginning of the real deal, and the signal that your old ... spent probably the first three weeks in a constant state of far too much ... kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  is held there on Sundays. The surrounding villages have none of these ... structure. The water produced is very clean, because the sediments of the ... career to become the president of what Drop of Water is now, a fully

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016