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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  student, you’re driven by the mentality of getting into a good school ... For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the following categories. Some of it is excellent advice. Some of it will not make sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  parts of the process - because it forced me to think critically about my ... As promised, an awesome guest entry - written by the wonderful ... mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  : William Yee We heard speeches by the Governor of Massachusetts and MIT ... year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  questions of current students, followed by a jazz social and dinner at Walker ... 70s through the 90s. In 1998, the yield was 56%, but by the end of 2005 ... -quarters were run by students. But not only that, hundreds of student volunteers

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  hours passed by with no signs of capture. I got some sleep at 7 am after ... message of kindness. Those moments when I was so occupied by work that I ... have when I pass by there every lecture. And when I have children of my

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  groundbreaking began on the new dormitories by September of that year. The reunion coincided with the graduation of the class of 1923, and so by the time ... by the engineers.)” Further realizing the technology-laden nature of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  sometimes your workout or run is punctuated by the click and conversation of ... exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT ... lifted in (almost) all of them and chronicled/tier-listed them below for

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  find out by chance that two of my friends know each other in ways I would ... ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  internship in Europe in my field of study by November with minimal effort on my ... fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  tw: extensive discussion of anxiety, panic attacks; mentions of ... and we get out of bed We get dressed We clean up last night's mess And ... took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  policy is perfect for every individual by virtue of every individual being ... -president, elected by the student body every year, choose the rest of the UA officers ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... schedule to include biology and neuroscience. By the end of this semester ... my talented friend Ben '11's camera, of which you can see more (and by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had ... the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (oh, by the way: the first few weeks of freshman classes involve A Lot ... (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  , taken by Beth D. '02, of a "hall feed" with American flag themed cupcakes ... period covered by this blog post. And yet, in the scale of the room's age ... I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  blog post, I thought I'd document the process of my first research ... in the future I'm in the process of writing a few more papers right ... of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  shaped by the people around us, and that process not only means that ... to be immediately answerable by any of our discussion above; all seem ... specialists or generalists, I find myself pulled by the allure of specialization

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... frantic night of keyboard-banging, friend-proofreading, and increasing panic

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  simply do not have the energy to do so. here is some of what i have ... plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015