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  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... august by Taylor Swift on repeat. As I grow older, I find that Taylor is ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers ... “five factor model” was developed by several independent sets of ... This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of ... than 30 countries and includes hundreds of thousands of student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  because of the people. On another note, doesn't the name "Judd Logan" sound like a super hero's day name? Kind of like Clark Kent by day Superman by ... the quality of people here at The Institute. Judd Logan is yet another

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to ... optics and the water droplets in the cloud and the angle of the sun and ... jogged toward the South door of the building. Then I saw my professor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... /Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences/Course 12, and 54-100, one of the most ... , and the team with the most runs gets the much-coveted title of "Most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and ... see - which means that on a daily basis I'm not surrounded by most people, I'm surrounded by MIT people. This is a good thing for many, many

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace ... you get here, since it's sure to be legendary by the time you get here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  Mystery Hunt 2006. What is Mystery Hunt? Mystery Hunt is one of IAP's most ... where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (home of UCLA) for a quick email check and boba, followed by a sit ... Counselors (OC ECs), coordinated by Regional Chair Joanna Tan, M.D. A subset of the Orange County ECs, having a nice picnic dinner. Directly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... 's book author to speak, and donated a copy of one of his books to all of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A ... [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... how devastated I was by my rejection."] university's honors college

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  is the first of my two Taiwan stickers that were designed by artist ... yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful ... emotional breakdowns and two whole pints of Ben and Jerry's to finally come to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  faint hum of those Zamboni things which are busy scrubbing the hallways to a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by ... -druhdruhdrum sound of the crossing signal on Mass Ave is still audible as you pass

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  's warm just by nature of being inside and cozy with candle-like lighting ... Shire, floor 4West, Next House, Cambridge, MA. This weekend was, of ... I'm able to have because of you, as well as the future I have ahead of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The ... applications, the cruel difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  guy... obnoxious guys usually change by the end of a series but for this ... averaged 2-4 hours of sleep after that until finals week. Then I ran away and ... break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Many of my readers know by now that if you ... concentration of them centered around 77 Massachusetts Avenue. Well, sometimes ... additional award of $150.00 for the best original piece. "Oho," I said when I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another prefrosh from Kansas. I’m one of those people who function best when I have an idea of what my day’s schedule looks like…and if you

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007