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

  

  , magical process of directing. There was a lot of information, and a lot of ... by the issue. I couldn't really think of solutions, and I was just ... of work I put in as a director were invalidated by those thirty minutes

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

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... weather, and frequent rainfall. The coming of the rains also signal the beginning of the academic year, as the Philippine school year starts in June

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  other day. (all of which are great media, that i strongly recommend, by ... dissatisfying because as the days of summer went by, i felt my life became ... up on my shoulders like clay dropping from the sky. by the end of

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

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the ... I had been matched to a research group led by an intellectual hero of ... or the bonk describes a condition caused by the depletion of glycogen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  of you who are intrigued by what is in my opinion a highly bizarre ... Woman B. Each of them will introduce themselves to you by name, and then ... When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  the place I was supposed to be. By the end of this year, I’ll have ... by sifting through (loads of) academic journals, how to find and study ... motors must exert extra energy to cancel out the legs' natural dynamics of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  kind to myself remains a work in process. wave imagery inspired by ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... ."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery ... food and dining resources guide maintained by DSL (and now takes Tech ... when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  processes happening around you! My labmate, Suehern during one of our ... some photos of Cambridge taken by a fellow CME student, Ho Yin Au! His ... year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question ... bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I ... freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... , Indiana. I studied energy policy and economics, and by my second semester I had a research position with the director of the energy department

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College ... determinist by any means. But there is still something to the law of the ... how their admissions process works. But if you're thinking of applying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  a little bit deeper on what I meant by a few of these things, and what ... outside of Native Americans. I want to preface this all by the fact that I ... ). This in turn leads to things like casual use of the n word by non

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  . For me, the process of knowing that has taken years. These are, after ... process of deciding between colleges. I checked my calendar, and I committed ... "leaning in" comes from a piece of writing by my good friend Avery N. ‘22

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... decision actually determined some aspect of our futures, which was scary to say the least. The reality is that the college application process is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  well. By the time I got out of the interview, it was about 6:00. I was ... Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  by dropping sticky notes into a small box outside of my room, and that ... Fund for Humor.  As part of the application process for funding, we ... actually happened. This playtest was by far the most chaotic of the three

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  mean by them, and how they play into our admissions process. When we ... process: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing ... . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  edited and edited by a variety of different people. Just a voice, and ... telling you to shut your parents or counselors out of the process entirely ... to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused, of using my body and my voice, of taking care of myself--things i am

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018