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  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter rail, and is also accessible by bus, although we rode the Red Line to Alewife and just took an Uber to drive us the rest of the way (Uber is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  severe enough that I decided to get it checked out at MIT Urgent Care. I ... surprisingly frictionless. Until it was time for the diagnosis, that is. The ... "]general butt pain[/annotation], telling me to just live with it for [annotation

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided ... Choice of Major website. Sara wrote, "For the next Omnibus: - Is it ok to ... MIT rejects people for listening to such whiny crap... - Is it ok if our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  new to me. Trying food is a huge part of my experience here. I ... . After settling in, it feels a lot like MIT--there's so much to do in a ... everything you've done the following morning. It's starting to feel like a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  anyway and trying to keep it from happening. (You’re welcome. =P) This is ... comments: Amy asked: Is it acceptable to use abbreviations for fairly ... It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... , it began to rain. (click to enlarge) This is my favorite tree on ... being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  Classes Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take ... Development. I am going to help build a satellite! It is going to space! I am ... -Conner?"]housing.[/annotation] It was really nice to see that the professor cares about (a) making the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  cadets a few weeks ago. It is statements like these that make me very ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the ... clearer to me, as it now stands to separate me from my peers. Having

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of ... joke about Scrapple? What devious pun lies in wait? The suspense is too

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  it. I know I will be. Really bad photos to follow. Also, if you ... . *** Update circa 11:13 PM: As it turns out, it's actually really really hard to ... is, you know, eclipsed. Therefore I am going to declare all my photos

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  , it is your choice to decide what to include in your application ... is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT. So why then do we ask for this information? Simple - it helps us to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  memorized. Then it'll be 2013, which is hard to believe. On January 3, I fly ... sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... you ask "SO HOW DID IT GO???" and you have to break the news, when

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  interested in seeing how it'd adapt to a virtual format. after spending an hour ... trying to burst out of its shell. the outlines on things felt sharper, the colors more vivid. it was like taking the focus that i was so used to

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

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  school. And while the status has its perks, little time is left for you to ... to a stage not predetermined by government regulations. College is ... , enjoy the writing. That makes it so much easier. Overall, senior life is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  were the "fathers/mothers" of the project. I'm happy to see it continue. Hopefully it will assist all of you with your housing choices. What is ... Many of you have already received it, but for those of you anxiously

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  /astro major, you also get to do this: It has lightning bolts on the side and its name is Grease Lightning. Its empty mass is 0.1kg and coefficient of drag is 0.21. The lightning bolts make it faster while the paint job

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  clocks, one of which somehow reset itself to Eastern Time when I hooked it ... bed and woke up 45 minutes late. No matter - this is the first time it ... 'm so happy to be awake at 8-in-the-moooorning! Yeah, it's trash day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... ’m inclined to believe it has a substantive message anyway, the idea that a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... , it was to have the title You Knew What MIT Would Be, and it was going

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... turns out, it is very hard to do many of these things, and I worry that I ... like it is); I’m going to keep trying to do math and CS, but I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022