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  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  Earth, or aim the propulsion system in the right direction for a thrusting ... to fly in August 2021, with a handover date for final testing in ... Earth’s. In addition to looking for noble gases, I want to confirm

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  done with classes, which left me in an uncertain state for the future ... , but for a while I had some kind of bizarre voice in my mind telling me ... experimentation. I’ll be living in Goleta for the next five years or so, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 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,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  expressed in the following analogy. For me, high school was a lot like rowing ... for a long time. Realistically, it’s my freshman year in college, and I ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  in. They look around for empty seats and drop their things on a blue or ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical ... Student Support Services (S3), who coordinates the readmission process for

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  to be, regardless of where you end up for college. Have faith in ... late working multiple nights in a row and it culminated with me dropping a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... , you're so heads down in your work that you hardly notice dates flying by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... it in JavaScript. Well, that ended up changing. Over the past two years, I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  are, so we drew something for you!         ... people and make event hopping friends. K: Also, if you're interested in ... majority of attendees will be looking for friends, just like you! 3. Visit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  . I’m so disappointed in myself — even though I know that for me, I ... ’t even have the salty tears to show for it. I’m sure I was hosed in past ... , it would be so easy for me to lose myself in the jadedness and void of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  travels this Fall. With the Early Action season starting in full swing ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for ... Caltech student’s suitcase just in time for their (probably agonizing) 8 ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  spacious. There are rooms for both the quiet and the conversational. In this ... In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one-off situation that did not necessarily set precedent for admitting more women

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  in the end I wished I had another week, just for the students. I stayed ... ; garlic in pan cut chicken in small pieces cook for 5-10 minutes add ... I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... arrive in Harvard Square 10:01am arrive at L.A. Burdick's This particular ... for 21W.758 aka. MIT.616). I'm usually really bad at talking to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , most true to me posts I could find, taken for what they are (in addition ... character who appeared in the books."]Thalia stiffened.[/annotation] LOL for ... for a STEM camp. I wanted a way to keep in touch with these people that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... for me even when I feel I don’t deserve it. In others, I see a jumbled ... anyone else has had a chance to speak. In my emails asking for letters, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... on Tumblr In hindsight, I am positive that signing up for a Tumblr ... Another thing I did for fun in high school was filming dumb movies and then

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015