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  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  746572636570746564: At a corner of the ceiling between the showers and the entrance are ... -tanned shoulders the Disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  there are lots of different ways that you can talk about your work at a ... entire list of research published at that conference, which is pretty dope ... of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question: "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most ... bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it ... sunday’s thread who reminded me of this quote"]“To love at all is to be ... “work” in general. One of my clearest memories at MIT comes from a group

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

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... body at this point and who are one of the few that can say they’ve been ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  tamer: we sat down in front of our computers, stared at a spreadsheet, and ... , at the sort of point-of-no-return of the program, without a single ... talked about our mutual surprise at the large, large number of students who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  because Tetazoo is full of procrastinators, we only started at around 8:00pm ... rendering of the lineart. I sent it to Winnie, who was already at Metropolis ... Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which ... were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  awarded a prize at an Ig Nobel ceremony :) (Also, the rest of John Carr ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of ... extracurriculars at difficulty levels 95, 70, and 65 out of 100 difficulty points ... . I've spent at least 24 hours of my "off" time applying for summer

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  of our living group. The entire time, I could only marvel at how ... inevitably be split up at the end of the year. It also was incredibly ... at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  organization that encompasses the sorority side of Greek life at MIT. Panhel is ... commitment? – I thought I’d explain what Greek life at MIT is like, especially as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  , however, the balls began to fall and the masks began to crack. At the end of ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018