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  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... correctly, nothing was actually lost. But for the trouble, we were granted a few extra days to submit our applications. The due date was moved to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  museum's function coordinator asked for our permission to use a photo from ... sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  for nap time To make this plot, I had to “jitter” the dots a bit over ... really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  I saw an email encouraging freshmen to audition, so I showed up on a whim, not knowing what to expect. We ended up throwing together a ... words, the shortest rehearsal period I’ve ever had for a show. It was also

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10 ... Seminar, a required 6-unit class for all new ESG TAs. Discuss different

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , usually trying to complete a challenging problem set, or studying for an ... alien to my ears. They seemed like the ideal candidates for a CS major ... stepping into a bubble, where worries ceased to exist, leaving only room for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... while these economists deserve recognition for their contributions to MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random ... measure material properties down to the nanometer – that’s a billionth of a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  strategies for how to deal with it. Sometimes I don't know how to use a tool ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... grade after trying to ride a skateboard, I wasn’t angry at myself for not

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

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  to worry about a "career" for another, oh, 4-6 years, haha. 57. See a ... for 7.012 =p I might have had a bit too much fun while trying to pass ... free food on campus, but for a whole week is actually kind of hard to do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... with "the magic 1600" is not implicitly better to us than a student with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  on competing next year for sure. To start, competitors had to define a ... since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  back into the corporeal world disoriented, only for me to hand you a ... seppuku, for he is a Japanese creation. Stalin no longer has a mouthpiece to ... do you have so many new emails? The emails are due to a dorm email

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group ... East Campus at the top since we wanted to live in a Cook-For ... seemed like a natural step to us since, for one, it doesn't make sense for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  , they come with a price tag of your time and an expectation for them to be ... time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  due to the relocation of the water cooler. Trust me; it makes a serious ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  midterms on three consecutive school days. I have to go study for a 6 ... Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015