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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  (which, by the way, is very good). Demystifying Cryptography, a class ... . This one was also taught by some of my friends. Three of them, in fact ... makes a five-minute timer in five minutes. This was followed by a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  be interested! Before I came to MIT, I was often asked by my parents ... on Wednesdays to get to know one another (led by someone you might know

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  either identified or caught by Harley. He’s consistently been the fastest ... to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  Song: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne train coming. Before MIT, I had never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ... 't so scared anymore. Because, sure, figuring out the world all by

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and ... years, characterized by ignorant bigots who marry their cousins. There are

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  , taken by Beth D. '02, of a "hall feed" with American flag themed cupcakes ... room, by far, are the wonderful couches along the west wall. These were left behind by Jakob. "The small couch I bought from [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  filled theirs with their own culture. Multiply that by the dozens of teams ... people watching you code?, the last question asked by Jakob while they and ... . Although I kinda missed sleeping with Ice Bear by my side, it was a restful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by ... .)[/annotation] I try to keep the passage in my mind from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , nothing helped. I just felt awful -- and I felt sabotaged by my body, which ... extracurriculars and pretend I felt great, but I probably would've felt even worse by

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  : College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh This post was tough to edit! Both ... Pictures of 2017. By then, I memorized all the contents of my Google Photos

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  had never been to China by myself. I began to bittersweetly recall my ... treated in a weird way by everyone. But I'm still proud of who I am.  

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  by a random number generator each time I look. I call this ... ’ve never seen the mother bird, but she must not be far judging by this thing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  As promised, an awesome guest entry - written by the wonderful Stephanie Lin. Read on! <3, Hamsika --- My name is Stephanie, but mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  your epic tales of slaving away through the night, aided only by a can or ... uncomfortable place by necessity. How else could you start to grow?

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  integrated. But solving problems by applying trig. identities one after another, substituting multiple times, invoking the scary-sounding integration by parts

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  MIT. By the way, graduates of MIT's Architecture department designed ... . After calling home and the office, I went to the meeting accompanied by

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  digital whiteboard as a tiny personal project. by all measures, three ’Di ... other day. (all of which are great media, that i strongly recommend, by ... dissatisfying because as the days of summer went by, i felt my life became

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  , memory a little worn away by time. I look at these years with incredible ... engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to ... by a bug in my room, in a thrilling two part saga"]giant mosquito

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  My favorite thing about MIT, by far, is its vibrant dorm culture. I ... that just by integrating into a floor culture, they can gain a lifelong ... it. Transition Team (TT) By the time we were a few weeks into the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020