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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.

  

  residents. It's something I try not to think about when I wear it. Anyway, I ... whatsoever to do with age when I couldn't stop giggling and failed miserably at ... bought some coils of wire to be our springs, labeled appropriately with

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

  bye (for now)

  

  people and wonder if it would be the last time i saw them, if not ever ... angry, and they will be right to be angry, because you got it wrong, and ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  mist, where the whole day there'd be this moisture in the air, not quite ... will probably let up, light enough to go through. Because that was the ... , and are coming, to campus. Slowly the summer will end. It feels as if

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  student who lives with undergraduates to give support. That explains why the ... to tell about the room, but he did not remember who lived before him ... interviewed to be the GRT on the floor after I had left and asked if I lived on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  ). ;-) Use the freedom that comes with not having grades first semester to ... from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be ... the future, but it's more important to be present in the now. You won

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... the “why” is because it will look good rather than because students are

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  to not go. While panicking about what I’d do the summer after my junior ... first-years will be the Class of 2031. Perhaps part of the reason MIT ... people who kept challenging the ways I think, inspiring me to be more, or

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  I wished to be a part of. Unlike the others, this paper did not ... into the darkness of the jet black irises hoping that I might be able to ... should be enough to keep the eyes from thinking I had died. Back to my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  starting line of the Boston Marathon. The ground will be cold, and probably muddy, which is why I'll be wearing the sweatpants — the ones I'll only ... . Behind the volunteer, there will be big piles of big bags of these clothes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use ... find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... what I want to be. After eating less-than-wholesome -- I think the worst

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or ... be just as important as the breadth.) I have not really become “Chloe” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  time. 9:35pm: Ethan comes up to not-so-subtly cough about the slow ... be out by 1am. Yeah, that's not going to happen. 1:02am: Okay, I ... to be doing the World and Nation section. 2:29am: Apparently in honor

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to MIT’s Class of 2022 have asked us if their acceptance will be ... Institute is obligated to educate them to be not only capable technical ... : indeed, to be civically responsible is to put into practice the obligation

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  , not four. It's easy to say that you'll read the lecture notes for the ... saying, "go to class", I think my advice will be as follows: pick classes ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  observes, being "out" is not the only way to be LGTBQ+, and the costs of ... change. Ultimately ... it's just nice to not be the only one. Or even the ... had (which turned out to be not super healthy anyway), and not the queer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  functors to the past and be still alive. 16:17 - 19:17 PCB Design and LED ... ? Come listen to us argue. Delicious home cooked Hispanic food will be ... You just can't wait to be King. No one will tell you no, or where to go

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

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... responded the same way we responded to all the questions about minimum SAT ... double back, at around 4pm on Friday, and make the trek to the third floor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... to be worried about not being smart enough. Until you're so old you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ;   And I know, that I wanted to be faster, smarter, to do all the ... don’t need my value and worth be lessened because of the things I’m not ... nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018