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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... half actually screwing the sheets in. I expected plywood flooring to take ... finalized, I embarked on a sidequest to rig up the net in the center. It took

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  . She also gained some insight on how these organizations work in Boston ... together can easily meet up. In order to be more accommodating, the chapter ... sisters that came before them. Kenneth admires how ceremonies can tie

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  thrown my way in isolation. nothing can make one be like that."] I can do ... -experiencing the awe of “how in the world did I get in”, the hope that I had for what ... because of, or in spite of, MIT)? How will MIT change? I guess we’ll see

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6 ... with the justification of "Fuck it, why not? I can just drop it if I don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  . But how can I, without even knowing you, tell you frameworks that you ... interested in the topic area of my work Feeling like I can do good through ... in my cohort. But do I think that I can do it, and moreover, enjoy it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me ... an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  , but about how I can rise above a letter of rejection, I’d have handled ... me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most ... maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  could do it, then so can I.  I looked up how to conduct research at ... who had placed in the Intel Science Fair. I looked up how to win ... amazing in ways I can’t even begin to count. It’s so easy to fall into the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  knowledge of knots is not for naught. I can knot understand how anyone could ... Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  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 ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• 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…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... ! Here's more of your questions: Nihar queried: I was wondering how and ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  . Instead, I can be happy and content and find meaning and value even in ... , but do I know anyone still in Boston during Winter Break?   ... 're gone.  Arrive in Zürich. Figure out how to get from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  't quite emulate that in your own projects. But you can't keep improving ... is the only organ that can regrow large amounts of cells in vivo and ... , how I ended up talking to Elizabeth about helping out with some other

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... : I read something online that said, “There are 30,000 days in your life ... molecules. Reformulate the equation. In short, I want you to hack the world

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  classes, [like] 18.100B/Real Analysis, to see how well I can do on difficult ... interested in writing, mathematics, and computer science. It turns out I can ... different translations"]back in Cambridge,[/annotation] I still remember from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021