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  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  have prompted me to learn how to make this dish in incrementally more ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... rest of the student life equation: how, thanks to MIT’s flagship ... traced back to the early student life of MIT’s dormitories. In particular

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  Gender Studies. How to get access The Cheney Room is open to all women and ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments ... .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a ... you to get to the food in time. When you reach the student center ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  activities I could only dream of — I was overwhelmed trying to find my place in ... grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly ... !!!!!! In my last semester at MIT, I have finally learned to love myself and I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  “getting in” to the point that it somehow became the center of my daily ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... it to Penn within days of their mail. I also sent in my SAT scores and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  little descriptions (in case you want to pick and choose which videos to ... to bump my own post... but I also don't want my videos to get ... also pointed out to me in the comments that, upon skimming this blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  "The Smiths." No one needs to see that in the background of my Zoom call. I am on the couch in the living room right next to the wi-fi router ... little hazard sign pops up next to the four wi-fi bars in the bottom

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to ... summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so ... to the person staffing it, and say what we wanted. It was nice getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... -- once I tried to get my media out before the autoclave was done exhausting

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  sadness in the world ok my fourth crush is in the works so i need to get ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... HaikuBot. HaikuBot counts the syllables in each message sent to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it ... to figure out how to use it. In this project, I knew I wanted to focus ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  they might get in. I said I'd of course tell them to take a shot and see ... , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm ... love of my life. And choosing not to choose (in this case, staying in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  relativity to tell how modern the ideas in the course description are, but 8 ... started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how ... : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013