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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of ... is vines and fire escapes up brick walls, streetlights leaning against steep slopes on narrow brick and stone streets; it is hidden alleyways

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... -3.” “17 and something else?” *loud sigh* *spontaneous combustion* “Course ... -calculus-by-second-grade math majors, kids who’ve competed in national olympiads, freshmen and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug through boxes of cereal and bunches of fruit until I found something that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to him tell his life story to me and talk about what he wants to do after ... did so-and-so things. Not as someone who made decisions and had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring ... even knew anyone who was in their 20s, but now you do, and I am here to

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

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it ... for the agonizing six weeks following October 31. And then, I got this

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He ... asked him whether "Cloudy Apple" is good, and Davie's response was "it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  AP classes and participated in extracurriculars but still didn't know ... immersed in experiences beyond compare, and that'll be all the justification ... and rebuild new ones. Money can't purge your fears out of you. That's a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on ... my advising seminar yesterday, and I’m currently trying to finish an 18

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire ... us. he took three chopsticks and arranged them as he explained. one along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• 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?

  

  while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago ... HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or ... in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ’ll call U, and my return flight to the Philippines had a connection through ... new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday ... Siva was coming from Chicago the next morning, and that I could have

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

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  , who was also a floorpi resident, and how he did a speedrun through all ... station, and made notes about where he could’ve saved time. It took him 9 hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  of the firehose and everything. (Of course, the water was actually from the drinking fountain, and not the fire hydrant.) [caption id ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his words, such as Things #1, #35, and #50, have gotten me through hard times ... right away, and it might feel like nothing could go wrong. But in college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT ... students, affectionately known as the Z']Zesiger Center[/annotation] and ... . Each dorm gym has its own pros, cons, and personal quirks, and there

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... pre-frosh and MIT students alike were sprawled on the floor building ... hat. Others took turns playing Mozart’s Turkish March and the Mario

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015