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  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting ... had to make an automatic panorama from some images that we took (we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The ... equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... . You return to the first floor and walk to the other tower. You’re still

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... more about hacking itself than individual hacks. I'd like to write one of

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  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 ... to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New York City. I always manage to overheat when I travel, so I'm only wearing two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  when something like this happens (kind of equivalent to when famous ... to watch. It doesn't go into scramble mode very often, the only other times I've seen it are immediately prior to CPW and before the Dalai Lama

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to ... relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... to be charming things that you said are suddenly swarming it's easy to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... – they’re fuzzy, often hard to express, and even harder to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
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  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  to keep going or are scared about the present or future. A panic ... to catch one's breath. One's chest might hurt from not breathing ... thing to get under control when you are feeling overwhelmed and/or anxious

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In 2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I want to switch into 8.02, that’s gotta happen today. This blog was not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always ... might want to live here, and if you don’t want to live here you might want

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