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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... through MIT. I've destroyed and created things because of MIT. My entire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own ... something of an occupational hazard, like being bleary-eyed, or having a

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

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context ... . When I applied, I was well aware of the fact that MIT attracts the best

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we ... /her, and ultimately most of us usually like the person we have become over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports ... Jimmy Bartolotta '09. One of the great things about sports at MIT is that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working ... ;Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class ... a live band, an audience of 3300, and an overall class budget of a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for my undergraduate degree. It's a quirk of my schedule that my 24 ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I ... two of the classes that I originally submitted are still on the list. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... scent of carnage spread over all of dorm row, until all of West Campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of ... left (or somewhere nearby) is a map of the MBTA subway system. You ... on until the very last stop, South Station, which is when most of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  . This gave a degree of accuracy to 1mL, or 1g. I would be able to get ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... are obviously hot, but by cooling black metal that still holds a lot of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

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

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  . Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is ... no stress—no exams, no due dates, no daunting expectation of quality work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017