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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... feel and create my own freedom in how I change." Well, somehow I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  opportunity to participate in a beginner-level appropriate competitive match to ... , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it ... prospective students. Here is what he said: Try to keep things in perspective

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... amazing view at night. My parents would always comment on how lucky I was to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... closest to the clean water). But in addressing other issues, we hope access ... (contractors and workers) who were familiar with how to construct this system

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... "the spellbinding 1400." Scores are one tool we use to help us in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  to eat. I see Anderson in the kitchen as well. He talks about how he ... while having only half the answers for the round in an attempt to get ... intend to see it through, no matter how ridiculous the titles end up being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  wasn't possible for me to get an A in this class, so I left it on PNR to ... quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... stressful weeks. He often checks in on all of us and reminds us to stay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... stuff we did to have fun lock in this semester. [carousel image1

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use ... find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... Alexandre Dumas -- are on my bookshelf in Cambridge, daring me to take them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don ... props are fun. I was reluctant to get robes at first, but some generous

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... to hold their class materials. Professors: Three women in the video ... polymer formation. In her feature, she discusses how three major milestones

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old ... , from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid ... to the troubles in life, comparing problems with the weather, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... day and we mused about how we'll never get a normal moveout. Last year ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how ... holes. Get ready to get lost in the sauce with the Sauce Boss! 13 ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to ... understand what makes them who they are, and why. Getting to know their

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... about how miserable we both were. Something needed to change. Anything. We

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  ways—which, as I get older, I think is the key to changing The World in ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... A Great Hunger by Selam G. '18 Learning how to be a human being, not

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  try it sometime! If you have questions about how to get started just ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020