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  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for ... for me to go.’ While the answer sufficed through its cynicism, a kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... word was “nosy”), living for witnessing others’ moments. I hope I will

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... four huge airport-bound bags…and then it happened. I heard it. For a long

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... you came into some people's lives for a quick burst and then flaked out. I am very grateful for that call out. He put himself out there and

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

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put up celebrating the brilliant and diverse faculty, professors, and staff ... "] SHASS.[/annotation] I, for one, think this hack was extremely well done

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... it in JavaScript. Well, that ended up changing. Over the past two years ... that there was hope for me yet. It's also pretty cool that my experiences

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ... admission officers ("adcoms") are not looking for "standard" answers, and you ... you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  XNEQ&ab_channel=EvelynFromTheInternets Sozin’s Comet: Everything was building up for the ultimate battle between ... searching recipes of pictures I had collected earlier. I looked up recipes for ... Beware! There will be many spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  . i am scared for what i will see when i wake up tomorrow morning don ... focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... legally prohibited for decades. As the law stands now, the only reason we may narrowly consider race for individual students in our process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ; I can end up working at a job or researching for a while longer, and ... These blogs exist for many reasons. Show prospective students what ... for feeling all of those things, or feeling anything else. No matter

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I've been immersed in this place for six months. You’re probably sick of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  they turned out alright for me): 1) Finish (or start…) your essays ... like common sense, but considering I wrote my entire main essay for ... of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  's changed for posterity, maybe before I change it one last time before I ... I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... could talk for hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... , for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the wealth of disciplined persistence he’d built up over the months had come

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow ... (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... Gregor for CPW. The walk to campus was miserable: cold air and colder rain and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... that people once tried to renovate but eventually gave up on to let them ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  questions, but I'm trying to catch up now that I'm home, so please bear with ... luxury I'm very grateful for, because while your college major doesn ... it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  registration opens very late. For example, pre-registration for Fall 2019 opened ... to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for ... 't decide when registration period rolls around, so they register for twenty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019