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  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to decipher these, and to distinguish the truth from the fiction. Maybe you ... and you were tired while you were working but now you aren’t. You go to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  through the whole thing made me think, wow, I need to write about this. I ... ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... ] the weekend before Thanksgiving. To me, the easiest way to explain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... early afternoon to see the sights. There are a few attractions to the town

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time ... meant no more having to lug buckets/backpacks/tote bags/suitcases (yes

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... 've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his ... . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... the idea at first. When you come to MIT, you will often find your people

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , dreamy tone people usually use to describe things like “winning the lottery ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... cat, I ran quickly to the office and seconds later, was tearing off DHL

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift while you do it to make a square"]rectangle,[/annotation] and then drag to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... strangers, to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where we, and thousands more of us ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016