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  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... being foolish. Noone from my entire county goes to MIT, especially not ... but about the person. Sure MIT's is a shortcut that opens doors, but if

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I ... from that moment that I knew, tonight was going to be a good one

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... President to be announced, but nothing happened. Eventually the sound guys ... of the important people on his way out. This was going to be the chance

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  to decide which one was going to make the universe better, as if being ... ’ll call U, and my return flight to the Philippines had a connection through ... the end, I was going to be dissatisfied no matter which option I pick

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
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  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --assuming that they have the same potential to do and be anything they want, and the same capability to be amazing. From that, I learned that if you ask ... the ability to see the apple, if you never have the chance to use that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  , people wanting to know if I had been too. The answer to the latter was ... countdown to EA Decision Day. December 15, 2008 was the scheduled date for ... Monday, simply because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in any of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... even if you go to every recitation and lecture, you might still fail your ... ’ll be able to make it through the semester, let alone ever measure up to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be ... 't even know if I would be headed off to med school today. On a somewhat ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... in Bitcoin because he thought the banks were going to fail. Now I had ... be okay with that. I have to attend to the weather and the wind and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  conversation starter. I’m surprised that the song, "It sucks to be me," isn ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  will also be the place to meet their best first-year friends (and look at ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  puzzlehunts; if there's any time to pick up the hobby, it'd be now. The Hunt, I ... might be to generate hype. In the past, the extent of "hype-building", if ... intend to see it through, no matter how ridiculous the titles end up being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  , that that semester was the tip of my career and I'd never be able to ... the rest of the world before I could choose who I wanted to intensely be ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the ... dormitories, referring to their absence on the soon-to-be-former campus as “one ... : “There seems to be no limit to their aspirations. The Lounger would not be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... " questions that used to be at the end of your math textbook in every section ... often being compared to a boot camp, where everyone is put through the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  guaranteed to be safe. Moreover, if you get a MacBook Pro, you can have all the ... Cambridge, or from LaVerde's in the student center, but LaVerde's tends to be ... , and one hand/face towel. If you want to work out at the Z-Center, they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  harder to find. Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the ... wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... the very least, I learned how to be a better friend. Play fair. Five

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
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  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... content. I'm flattered but, to be clear, the best thing I ever did at MIT ... , I realized that the thousands of entries would now need to be retagged

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  as the semesters pass. Try not to end up with many more than 1 or 2 if ... . Especially if you’re a fast walker: when walking to class, don’t take the ... obnoxious biker about being seen. It can save your life. Get out to the city

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015