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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... events. But you will emerge from the other side - that's what long weekends ... has developed for itself a spirit and a culture that no university can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  long time ago, “the engineering profession was less than one percent ... classes at a (very good) (but not as stimulating) university, and the two

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come ... chance of getting admitted, that these top-tier universities were way out

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen ... -tanned shoulders the Disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  Hello guys! Sorry for the super duper long hiatus :( After my final exams which ended early June, I immediately set off for some traveling (I ... year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  's the first fiction class I've taken in a long time, maybe even since ... though they may just live in this universe that you've created, has wants

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  avoiding talking about it on the blogs all summer long, in perhaps a stalwart ... . it is normally in boston university, but this year we are doing the ... , six-saturday long program for middle schoolers and high schoolers that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  apartment. Lots of people sign year-long leases on apartments (including those ... University, Boston University, Olin College of Engineering, Berklee College of ... long time to cook enough food for 30 people! The meal would begin with

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... 't realize the degree until that conversation on Saturday night. In my post on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  career. Would I stay at this company for a long time? Would I get bored ... months long. In UROPs, and you only do what someone tells you to do; in ... . My choice was between University A and MIT. During my visit day at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  in whatever state you’re in, realize that whatever has been making your ... was spending a lot of my time more focused on the state of the ... my generally distracted state. When dead week rolled around and I had

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  so long to grab their coats. why they would ask us to get ready to go ... will… think about how long the days felt, and how you could hold her hand ... people you could have lingered with. and you will wish… that the universe

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  monologue was incredibly long and circuitous. Cutting it down to 7 minutes was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  hometown city appears on road signs after a long drive – so close, but so far ... existed back then. That must have taken a long time right? But 2012; that wasn't THAT long ago....was it? So imagine my surprise when I convince

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  research in Germany, first at his hometown university and then at G ... decompositions. The pearl lemma states that we can place the same positive number ... has twelve. Bricard’s condition states that, looking at two three

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  from the State House Dome transferred some night to the big dome of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  that they could put more crap on roofs, including a cow (fake cow! fake

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  , public, and international universities. Some took a so-called “non ... transfer students: Gaurab Previous institution: Purdue University (West ... Engineering) Krithik Previous institution: The University of Auckland

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;Register for the intensive German course at University of Zürich.   ... best. As long as I could grasp the material and write the exam ... Kondi workout class, go on long walks, pop in to local shops, skate

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018