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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to ... you need to get any medicine!! 4) Anyone at MIT In all honestly, if I ... (FUP).  I held in my tears and sadness the entire day, but by the end of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... "), but I can already see that I'm not quite the same person I was before ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... it since we had turned in our apps. (When I was YOUR age, we didn ... thinking she hadn't gotten in. So I did the same thing - after I came home

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  wooden bench in South Station, just across from the Au Bon Pain. I am about ... . We will have to see exactly how it goes, but I suspect that this trip will probably end up over seventy-eight hours. In the meantime, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  much of the lab as I can in one sitting. Since I haven't been in a coding ... , so here we are. Well, what are the classes? I'm interested in computer ... pixels with the least 'information' in it, but you can't just add those

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in ... . (That part's the gravy!) MIT is a hard place - I can say that with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in ... and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this ... 'll enjoy the moment. I certainly would were I in your place. Revel in it a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  charles, noticing how the smallest shifts in seating rock the boat, the ... are young, i felt like i regressed a few years that night, in that way ... last weekend and last week when i pay attention i realize how old i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  to how prevalent creme soda is as a flavour in South Africa. I grew up ... my favourite drinks back home in South Africa; naturally, I was excited ... has the drink, though, so I lived in blissful ignorance about the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  once. I had this moment most recently while sitting in my 18 ... rigorous high school math educations!!” Which began to degrade into “… I can ... , the walls of my room and B-Entry in MacGregor have many nice things. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  know how MIT is. You might think to yourself "oh but I know so much about ... can do the job as well. You're in charge though; it's your life. Make ... with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  , I give you HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AT MIT IN 15 MINUTES! (and pictures ... in order to do that, I have to teach you quantum mechanics. It'll just ... . How much effort do you put in trying to stay true to real-world science

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  'd paint you a walk along the river, in this nimbly crafted post; I'd tell you how I love this place, about its gentle paradise, all in prose that ... write. I'm hoping to come back soon, but, in the meantime, please accept

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  there has been in a while. I was outside writing this blog in Killian Court, but the sun was causing too much glare so i’m in the library right ... ’t think i ever read…) for weeks about an event in lobby 10. Thursday I saw

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know ... special. Meeting with an EC can be a lot of fun. I've heard great stories ... , musicians and everything in between. Some are teachers, teaching in schools

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  and challenges, just a little shocked at how much it actually hurts.  I ... are some recent tidbits of my life~~ I’m falling in love with pink ... recovering from."]gifts.[/annotation] In hindsight, I suspect it’s because I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  sometime during high school, but in 9th grade, I was still intent on ... do black holes have angular momentum?” and “Can I time-travel?” and ... audience that I have ever seen in 10-250, one of MIT's biggest lecture halls

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... with some of the current bloggers in our messenger chat, I emailed the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019