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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , creative kids whom it was a pleasure to talk with and learn from. But most of ... buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your ... , because it is the only way I might reach across impossible distances, the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  to do is to work on It, and make it better so that next time you might ... metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is ... Bible. This is why some Bible verses are like And then the LORD said to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  pins instead of spoons.) BS with giant cards is a challenge: it’s hard to ... weightroom weight as a counterweight): it is dropped, not pushed; thanks to ... -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  energy is starting to dip. By 11pm, the reviewers are finally all gone ... focus of 2.009 is trying to prove out ideas as quickly as possible. Often ... ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  out that science writing is an actual profession, it has secretly been ... physics prodigies since birth. I've talked to a number of them, and it doesn ... writing. It's one of those things you "unfortunately" have to do as a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , it is most definitely going to be hard to leave MIT. But I definitely ... Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it ... aspirations?(*) (200-­250 words)." And this is what I said. "I aspire to be

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... high honor, but it is one which I received."]play in the all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  they can't finish what they signed up to do. It's not that that person is bad, it's just life. This is also something I forgot to account for when ... TINACBNIEAC by fans.']nothing is ever a coincidence.[/annotation] Okay, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  application might take up to 3 months," but it's December and you leave ... you're going to do, like have someone still in Boston mail it to you ... fail, so scramble to visit the nearest Bank of America to have it done in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  everyone else is trying to make it work i dont know what to do any more. i ... to believe that it is. but it’s a good thing. you are doing a good ... similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  , which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP ... 't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some ... it, and I wish I'd gotten a chance to do this earlier. Costuming and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  trying to pin it on anything else – race, gender, whatever – is just ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade ... to take 8.02. Everyone who works at MIT is expected to innovate, to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... prefrosh alike, the correct answer to that question is... "There is actually ... conflicting times and few prerequisites), it's actually not too difficult to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  her work truly is impactful. At the same time, it’s just so sickening to ... it scares me. Asking for help is already hard, but now I also have to ... get over it? I don’t know. What I do know is the fact that I need to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• 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 ... research sooner? Why do I love research so much, enough that I want to do it ... X internship pipeline, it was easiest to obey the excellent shepherds

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

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  it, and only digging up enough energy to do a tenth of the first one ... into dust, and there is nothing I can do to save it, because that's just ... close to the pain it must be to lose someone, I think the word grief is

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

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  days. it took a lot of mental energy to write something every week, but ... barely know what to do with. the present is really such a funny thing. it ... next house. it felt good to finally be earning my own money, and spend my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... it is.) More than just being around here though, he has served on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011