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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot ... girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the ... returners are stable and supported even if they’re not yet 100% readjusted to ... . Last week, I spoke to a girl who enjoys being here so much that she might

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  heart-breaking reality. And it’s important to remember just how much ... , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his ... welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  be graduated.” And once he was “required to explain absence from ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... students who came to the Institute despite historical and geographical

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he ... and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one ... -bombing! That e-mail was subsequently e-mailed to the East Campus dorm list and

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  waiting for my plane.  And it was once I got in my seat that I decided to ... .111 (Chemistry) and 14.01 (Intro to Microeconomics) Thursday: 18.02A (Calc II ... 't rewrite from memory and after doing this I started to realize that this

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... asked permission from my advisor to drop the class and take 18.02 instead

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn ... to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he told me to come down. So I put all my things in the locker and ran to the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  within a mile of MIT. And while there’s much more to explore (down in ... . While I’d like to blog (both on here and not), I haven’t been. Finding time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  ,[/annotation] and started sorting out spring semester things. I tried to begin this ... lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for ... ) approximately how to deal with different classes of foodstuff and b) how to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... fact more broadly and explain our reasoning as to why. We have long held ... passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... everything I did today. I think it's pretty cool to see what's changed and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The ... business owners, artists, parents, and more. Many students transfer to MIT from community colleges, and others find their way to MIT from private

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... , and I was so excited to see what it would’ve been liked. I would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect ... catch to the list. We've acquired quite a few big names and cool units

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... , even when I had to. I stopped going to my afternoon classes, and then I ... life spun totally out of my control. And I had no idea how to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are ... into East Campus, were initially assigned to H306, and got reassigned to ... names, so back I went emailing. Kevin led me to Jessica K. '09 and James

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate ... creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things ... crowd. I know that this is difficult to reconcile for many students (and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  and have been able to rattle off a list of their five favorite airplanes ... having each other to lean on." And also: "You can't take any other ... success is familiar and widespread, used to describe teenage science fair

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those ... , with unambiguous and precise meanings. But to my friends and even, to ... between MITese and "regular" English. And beyond that, I also want to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008