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

  

  historical integrity of the piece, you’ll have to reload the page if you want ... the game with whomever was sitting next to them and before long it ... many underclassmen as possible about it to start a mini-revolution in the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  a bar? It is called the Muddy Charles Pub, and I had to look that up because everyone calls it just “the Muddy” and I actually forgot the real ... us to pay more attention to the world around us. Each class it’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  emotions means. If it's getting the emotions out, then that's not what's happening, because heck if I feel anything. If it's trying to analyze the ... impenetrable as always. If it's understanding where the emotions came from, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  the answer before returning it to idle, listlessly day dream about the ... (usually just before it's due) and literally sprint through the work to ... here in the fall, don't freak out about freaking out. It's supposed to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  enjoyed them much more if I'd addressed the underlying problem leading me to ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and ... going to! I'll start with a picture. It is 2014, and an embarrassment to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  minivan with a rounded hood. Its secret: if you fold the backseats down ... happened to be near my hostel. It was called El Prado, which I thought I had ... [annotation note="the sophisticated European way to say it, as in 'theatre

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream ... to make sure it was working”””” and read just the first line and couldn ... . EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! (it still took me an hour to open the decisions page) I didn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  through the bulb, it needs to be able to jump from one atom of metal to the ... amount of voltage in to start the lamp, then bring it down to the perfect ... . All clear? Just in case it's not, let's explain... So, the goal is to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  see people not only enjoy the dish, but also learn how to make it ... win that (I had to eat carolina peppers laced ramen). it depends if its ... remedy is to slowly chew on carbs, typically rice (because it absorbs the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  date. We were standing outside, staring into the surroundings. “It’s a ... it,” he said. I used to feel that way about my social life, sometimes ... to actively exclude me, but sometimes it feels like that anyway. But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the last few years, which makes it hard to be certain about where I ... . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you ... X internship pipeline, it was easiest to obey the excellent shepherds

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... i was asked in a video call with some friends the other day, and it ... narrower and narrower, until it came to the point that i’ve reduced most of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... essay (500-1000 words), it definitely doesn't apply completely to the new ... course of the summer, I realized the plight of immigrants when it comes to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  guess it's the namesake of this post too!"] Infinite [/annotation] to ... Happy [annotation note="so if you think about it i'm technically ... close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024