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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  fall! Interstellar was created by four students in the class of 2022 ... of the class (as measured by the weekly hours on Firehose) and the ... At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  had been routine process for my high school (which was partly owned by ... the holistic mechanism of the US admissions process, and it created a ... glimmer of hope induced by the relatively lower scores on some parts of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  in a highly selective process, is what an applicant makes of the ... the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  facilitated by the fully-stocked industrial kitchen in the basement of tEp. The ... available for residents' individual use. I took advantage of this by baking ... energy to create written records of their experiences and cultural

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalist wrote a compelling story, which got picked up by a number of other ... process that could be replicated by virtually anyone. Don’t get me wrong. I ... level of introspection, and ponder questions like "Why are resources

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  of the trees is washed into tinted grey by the yellow lights ... conservation of energy you can’t go full circle. We get to watch preparations for ... ’m very scared of both heights and speed) followed by calm swinging. No joke

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  broken by a series of buzzes and dings as our phones simultaneously ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ... days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how ... Activity by Day How did my hourly activity change over the course of a week

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a great deal of emotional energy has been invested into. Regardless of the ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of Detroit). At present I am working on signal processing and voice ... group of friends that you can have fun with, support, and be supported by ... kinds of resources and classes and connections. I’m writing software for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  couple of years away, as was Tumblr. The lack of third-party resources, in ... to cure cancer / creating the renewable energy systems of the future ... credit. ;-) The original blogs were inspired in part by the experience of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  of us got to solidify our legacy by writing our names in Sharpies on the list of previous winners.  Overall I am disappointed by how ... -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  by exploring a common cultural narrative that mostly fits: that of the ... released by an external force, with no self-knowledge or desires of their own ... process of trial and error, and in some ways it was, but in other ways, it

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  lot of MIT resources for finding housing. You can email them for help on ... _hidden]a sidewalk surrounded by trees, and a close up of leaves ... their coffees. And, even though you've walked by here hundreds of times

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  become an astronomer. That kind of thing happens a lot. My friend Lucas, by ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly ... whole month of high school as easily as middle or elementary) and returned ... that I was there. When I was 18 years old, I went by myself and recorded

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  second and moment of mental bandwidth and focus and emotional energy and it ... I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate ... the past 4 days studying as much as I could, yet by the time I tallied

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  many of you have poured so much of yourselves, your time, and your energy ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011