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  finding place

  

  . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... Activities Period), I was out watching the stars with a good friend when he

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  /label/digitize everything but that’s less interesting). So, here are some of the coolest ... ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... a store right in the heart of Central Square, [annotation note='Or about 662 smoots, i.e. less than twice the distance of the Mass Ave Bridge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  really enjoy advocating for good content creation and the importance of ... to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make ... of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  be good! But if the rest of this blog hasn't made it abundantly clear ... make up excuses like that I didn't know the syntax of MITx, but the short of it is that I failed. MIT Test #1: failed. Of all the possible

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  too limiting most of the time; they're a good starting point for ... In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design ... . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... four study legs, made out of 4x4s, the classic EC loft pillar material. I ... because making the bottoms of the legs perfectly flat requires non

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all possible opportunity, fun, or success. Ever. Good news: none of these will ... end: according to the author, an entire eighty percent of well

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  those choices, because they were made with good intent and with all of the ... MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , and amazing. And I feel good about these days, because I like the feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... of them, definitely. And it isn’t that every day in the middle was

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

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... that’s the most important ingredient. Good luck, future class of 2020 ... rejection by heading the Continental Army, driving the British out of their

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates, and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat ... photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... subset of those were a miscellaneous mix of talking about the sanctity of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have ... bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I ... one of the lucky four freshmen in the advising seminar 3.A04, Modern

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... that seemed perfect at the age of 18, that I actually feel as though my ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... , sometimes at the cost of letting old skills atrophy. The second part of this ... the patterns of everyday conversation. The book includes a set of ten

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  the corners of my eyes. On the inside, nothing. Just emptiness. But ... into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time with headphones on, staring at the computer screen. Perpetual state of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015