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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my ... Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  , and that kept me up for at least two weeks in advance worrying about it ... for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... upperclassmen are preferred for [annotation note="some big companies have freshman ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
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  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... meeting ended something like this: Me: Do you have any suggestions for ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  are tentatively up to for the next five years, what they are excited for ... . Any of the options available to you will open up vast possibilities for ... ”....That night, I realized there are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were ... ="aligncenter" width="1535"] graphic details have been replaced with flowers for viewer

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... days all the more. Fridays, for instance, I only have one lecture at 10 AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  adding a dry seasoning mix at this stage to make up for the missing flavor ... window, curl up in blankets with something good to eat, and escape to ... you’ve had; on the other hand my wish for you is that through storms and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  Gamemasters~ for the fun of it. We then set up our first form game, [annotation ... , claimed that he could’ve coded up a webapp for all this in 45 minutes — but ... the real game for the following weekend, but due to conflicts, ended up

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... for, well, MIT Admissions, things didn’t go the way I’d planned. I ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  't really stand for anything now, so the directors come up with a backronym ... ="712"] idk why this became 30 minutes i could've sworn i signed up for an ... started ended, seemingly for no reason. Messages popped up when we tried to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  fruit. You walk up to another table, and there are two options for meals ... ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you ... but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  . For this post, I've written up 22 anecdotes from my time at tEp. (Read ... beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... East Campus (EC) and Burton Conner House (BC) for summer rent (the other

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... casual relationships right for them. Many people entering college do not ... . I understand that for some of you, talking about these topics might be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  CHI PLAY 2020, an "international and interdisciplinary conference for ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... for all fields - publishing in human-computer interaction probably works

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  information she was given prior to signing up for recruitment, she found that ... and other information needed and applied for the internship. He ended up ... .   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the ... shoveling the wings into his mouth faster than I could pick mine up. He ended up eating his entire pound in under 2 minutes... and I had only

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... closes with him coming up with I’m Still Standing, where it shows him ... neighbors couldn’t hear us and mistake our four person party for a 1AM rager

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021