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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  of time and energy since I kept convincing myself I was bad at physics ... that took a lot of emotional energy. I was forced to: Recover from the ... , surrounded by decorations that remind me of how hard I worked to get to MIT

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  going through all of them. Foiled by graph theory! Alan suggested that we ... next train to Riverside pull out of the station. We’d missed it by like ... dozens of cars passing by on both sides. Green Line E feels. Alan: We get

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  Sail - official name of the steel sculpture by Alexander Calder south of ... middle of main campus, surrounded by Buildings 1-4, Building 10, and ... employees that serve as a valuable resource for a "zone" of 2-3 dorms

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  science shines with the promise of clean energy, undaunted by the grand ... magician is loosely inspired by several of the glass lab’s wicked cool ... -is-more tarot card deck. The angel of temperance has been replaced by a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  on by the administration, the Department of Student Life, and the ... 're not freshmen/freshpeople until after convocation! ~Conservation of frosh ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1 ... energy in comparison to the apathy of my mother. Still, in my mom's defense ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  of the road from exhaustion and lay there until some dog came by and ... though trying to keep up with the energy of students. A thousand events ... only by the right kind of light, we still weren’t able to finish the hunt

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• 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
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  the posts are connected by girders bounding the sides of the top ... -consuming and difficult process for 2 out of the 3 stringers, we screwed 2x4 scrap ... treehouse with a dome on top of it designed by Jordan T. ‘25 and Hanu S. ‘26

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  lover," "panty-dropping," and "we're all out of tacos") by giving you some ... with bated breath for an entry that never came. And by tens of tens of ... how much of my life has been shaped by the people I met, just because I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural ... of the application material by November 1, and have made a request in ... Candidates reply Date. Other parts of the process have remained unchanged

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
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  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  channel my energy into the revitalization of this system") 2. The essay ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
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  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to ... ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
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  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  part 1 of the application by choosing the 'fee waiver' option yet not ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  club, the place would recruit a remarkable amount of energy to help pull ... will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  grinding — led fearlessly by Erin, the insanely talented head of Software ... parts of it held clearly in your mind, kept afloat by adrenaline. I want ... being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , which you can think of as my “energy”, or “charge”, or “productive hours ... dips or bursts of energy throughout a given day. And there are more ... feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... the given prompts. Luana: In November 2021, I began the process of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024