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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to ... keep bubbling to the forefront of your mind when you least expect them

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  ."]where you want to live.[/annotation] This year, I'm serving as one of the two ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic ... found some of the Orientation events to be really meaningful. The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... talking to the people who work there, and my observations of the students ... were they talking to me instead of the girls who were a little faster and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water - the ... -undergrad life thus far falls short of where I wanted to be, due to the same fear ... 're the kind of person that would gladly subject yourself to judgment in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... . I just want to reach out to the applicants who read descriptions of ... -state and out-of-state schools to give myself the option to leave home if I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  because it’s an of-the-moment thing that seems important to know, but it was ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... )—it basically acknowledges the fact that people subject themselves to a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and ... most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when ... underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  tired and full of the next thing you have to do and the last thing you ... discussed the importance of reaching out to other people when the semester ... at all to be more representative of the experience, the responses vary

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  outside of Native Americans. I want to preface this all by the fact that I ... high school even though I normally went to schools where half of the ... ). This in turn leads to things like casual use of the n word by non

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... a few anecdotes to give you a picture of what the city is like. And

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  voices on what the time was, even if some of them got to it a little more ... of conservation and pass from one generation to the next as they do in ... list of books that I'm excited to read coming up. For the students

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  . Three days a week, I take a random bunch of applications to the public ... never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I tell ... human component of it. It's my job to present you to the committee; if

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  rendering of the lineart. I sent it to Winnie, who was already at Metropolis ... a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to ... strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement ... , there’s an increase of typhus/typhoid infection due to the rain and river ... , shallow layer close to the surface of the soil. This is very simple and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  lived there, and I had to call my parents to prove it. So the sense of not ... beyond citizenship to the existential question of who belongs, and who ... receptive. Sofia’s answer was spot on. I don’t want to string any more of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  culmination of an MIT career. They were given to only the perfect students, with ... ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a ... to fix it. Here’s a list of things that I thought I’d done in the fall

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021