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  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  , people wanting to know if I had been too. The answer to the latter was ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  ’ve probably seen the show and know how it is. I wish I could call this a ... because it was realistic in that the Aang and the gang were very hesitant to ... how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... the world tell you who you have to be and what it looks like to be ... dress if you want to fit in with the elite. The world will tell you, "oh

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called ... did use the react feature a lot. I wanted to see if my reacts differed

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  -level engineering abilities.) But whatever the reason, the call stayed with me. It ... —and hope that’s enough to change minds. It won’t always be, but remember: the ... anger. I recounted the call to my bosses at Tech Calling, voice raised and

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  we finally returned to classes. And then, it all just fizzled away. The ... I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... following it. Even in a perfect world where I do conform to the rules of my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... means it is customary to make wishes and toasts. I toast the adventures ... best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to ... ? Read this. Just! read! it! If not the whole thing, at least this block ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  I figured out I had to move. It took me a while, but I got up the ... people to stay the same just because you want them to. It doesn't mean you ... extend the hand, but it doesn't make you weak to take it. Take the help; it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  entry on the interview and how to prepare for it. If you haven't yet set ... Stuyvesant. It was great having them join me on the visit to Stuyvesant. We had ... . After calling home and the office, I went to the meeting accompanied by

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  floor and its pieces flew across the room under different couches, as if ... than that it’s great. I like being able to switch between the Unix ... trip over the power cord. I’m a klutz. It’s important to me that my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  deferred in and the same room that I found out I was accepted to MIT in. It ... read the page once. I read it again. I changed my Facebook status. I told my mom I got into MIT. She said congratulations. I went to bed. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  contrast to the people around me. It makes me feel like if I’m not gay enough ... threaded through the narrow keyholes of exactly how I wanted it to end up. If ... One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  you might need to work up from the bottom but if it seems really dead ... ’d go through it and try to remember the people who did the things with me ... yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  home to find dinner on the table. Hooray for boyfriends who can cook! (It ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he ... floor, whether it is forgiving someone, whether it is giving thanks to the ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  fashionably acceptable to his World of Warcraft friends - it's the guy who ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  "keep the lights on," which means to keep something going, even if it ... lifetime?" How many years before it'd have to be rewritten again? The ... something is the right thing to do, and this is one of them. And if you make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , and are coming, to campus. Slowly the summer will end. It feels as if ... different from the rain here. Back at home, if it does rain, it will rain for ... school year due to typhoons. It was just something that happened. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  around the city. The one I frequent the most is called Barton Springs. It’s ... an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... my detergent bottle cap like this to twist it off? Hm, probably so the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024