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  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  closed my eyes, I knew I was back in Jordan (and I honestly say this with ... . But in writing this (and trying my best to keep it short I’m sorry!), I ... , it’s 3 AM (MIT prime writing time, I know) and I’m sitting in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  its embrace. I can’t seem to find better wording to describe my current ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... freshman year, I’ve lived on Beast, a floor in the dorm East Campus. While I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  incoherent pen-markings in every wild direction on their notebooks. You can ... can't understand my notes is not because they are written in some odd ... amount of time, anything can be understood, no matter how complex, right

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  Freshman Year was another chapter in my book that I can re-read whenever I ... , I had a gorgeous five-story house to live in. For three, I gained 43 ... how every experience I've had with them was all within the past year. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... for similar reasons. But I think Rice can give both schools are run for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  the say 20 times I've drank it in the past two months, I think I've paid ... I am. After waiting for an hour in line as they set up for the ... how many years older than me?) And of course, who has a 375th

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  this soon. In the meantime, here’s a puppy. :)“ This semester, I found ... August. I messed up at times. Looking ahead, I can imagine few famously ... months, and I can cross the catastrophes off my record. Next semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  something today. Oh, my name is Kellen and I work in the communications wing ... —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... initial goal was a tad ambitious if not dramatic. With this revelation in

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  are all physically apart, we still want to be together in spirit! I can ... '22, President I remember being interested in Borderline ever since ... MIT. Freshman fall, I painted and animated a mural in the tunnel. The

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to ... day jobs. This summer, as in January, I've perched myself atop the flat ... freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have ... Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important ... , especially in times like these. I'm writing today to reaffirm what Chris said

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  malfunction in our darn WINDSHIELD WIPERS. I was stuck in an auto-repair shop in ... ?) – but I couldn’t resist?! Ice cream, in the making ... squares are… well. You’ll see in the picture below. Later, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  to work with you and accommodate your situation as much as we can. I ... . Given all that has happened, how can you not talk about the hurricane ... families affected by Hurricane Katrina. Let us know how we can best support

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  time ("ReMOVE the magazine. RePLACE the magazine"). I can hear his voice in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... 't worry!" it says. "I'll save you! Stop going to class so that you can do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  can have a regional competition here in the UK for the first time. In ... RISE (Roots In Science and Engineering) and is an example of how capitalization rules can be manipulated in order to force acronyms to spell words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  all around. In fact, I couldn't even tell you the frictional coefficient ... . Technically, none of us can fail a single class this semester. I distinctly ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Action is simply a reflection of this. Snively I mentioned in this entry ... , I will scan it in and publish it here. Valentine's Day ...is coming ... particularly awesome, although I can't afford it. :-( That's About It... We

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  announcing these prompts in the past: People often ask me, "How do I stand out ... doesnt, rewrite it until it does (because if your friends can't see you in your words, how can we?). Good luck, and happy writing!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  lot of what I believe reflected back at me. It counts to put in the ... only solace in the fact that, every time I took the 1 bus up the street ... changes like this in every corner of my being. When I started singing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  , realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the ... your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example ... which are kind of crude and can readily be found on Facebook (I'll leave

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008