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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it ... fellowship is that it is very student-led, so if there is something you want to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  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 ... . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just ... everything I could to raise my chances and still only got it up to a 50% - my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  . Or both. Please make it the former, and do whatever you can to prevent ... - WOMP WOMP - it's fine if you don't like bubble tea* (those of you in the ... something special to the table, even if you're not entirely sure what that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  exclusively heterosexual, it feels incongruous, if totally understandable, to ... for the cool girl in school was what it felt like to be straight. And I ... felt the wide-open space when it was gone. I know it’s hard, but if there

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... would go to graduate school (5 years down the line) but that it definitely ... to me. It is the most bitter pill to swallow, and also the most

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• 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 ... still have half a problem set to do, it’s nice to know that the weekend is ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger

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

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

  

  amount of time relative to the effort it takes to generate a quick Solid ... steady to the board, and it seems to fix the problem. Crisis averted ... audience members from around the globe. It’s the closest thing you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  heart, even if it wasn't a good idea, and it's hard to transition to the ... dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling ... to face the other toilet, and then, a few days later, moves it back. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then," asked claire, "if you wanted to go against the wind?" "you don't," said ... degrees to go the other direction, was called tacking. there were nuances to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  call the school district to see if they could change it. Luckily, it ... As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember

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

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... the Peano axioms. Someone wants to know if this will be on the test. The ... “[Reuse]” in the subject line, but it was actually sent directly to you. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had the ability to see the apple, if you never have the chance to use that ability, to practice it, then that ability may just lay dormant, and the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... living room to the Galactic Discord server. It was called the Boston spycam ... it was to run a Hunt, and the call ended. At the Boston gathering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  you to think we're sketchy, 2) it's entirely possible that I'm the only ... the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam ... my "a day in the life". It's something I chose to do because I want to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  metaphorically, not as if they could actually see it, not to the point where it ... better if I wasn't being forced to pretend all the time. It was all ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 ... professionally to its feet. There he was. Barack Obama strolled across the stage

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

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  it if/when the gyms reopened. I decided that, if I had to use the ... in Bitcoin because he thought the banks were going to fail. Now I had ... outside. It presents new conveniences, given the fact that I just have to go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  -up questions. It's also been satisfying to track my progress over the years ... success to success to success from the day they were born (I'm pretty sure ... struggles, academically and professionally, and many know what it's like to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013