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  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I ... of them. ** 1. First time using a washing machine. My first time in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal ... smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... acceptance letters anyway). I didn't believe in the "one size fit all" approach

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at the problem set on my computer screen, neck craning down. The music in ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair, this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in ... if my body is being pulled apart in different directions. yet at the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... blogging isn’t my “job” anymore), even harder. Many things in my life are

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  -profit PERIOD when she was 16. PERIOD has over 800 campus chapters in the US and ... describing the period in which her family rented their home as income while ... own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... without too much trouble. Your first semester in your major is Moo Moo ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  David buys some food. We take a seat and Jason spots us and sits in front ... Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam ... , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm ... different people, toward a different goal, in a different place, and at a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams for a reason, and each team carries its own traditions, culture, and in-jokes. One thing I love about the past two Hunts were the registration websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news ... , pressure washing everything in sight, replacing windows, emptying stores of ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  descriptions. MIT has published a new catalog every year since classes started in ... insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... long Professor Artin has been teaching algebra in MIT. It turns out he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... write. It's been a while since I've done that, in part because I've been ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in Ethiopia like Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network were dubbed in Arabic because ... Diaries💀💀 but I digress"]show.[/annotation]   Meanwhile, sometime in June, my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5 ... ) 12.400: Our Space Odyssey (1) 18.504: Seminar in Logic (1) 18 ... lot of the reasons mentioned the content of the class in different ways

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006