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• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  , like you do in your normal posts? alan: if this is how cj wants to ... within me. okay, dan, i get it! i get it. you don't have to rub it in. dan ... , okay? alan: … dan: ah. dan: you're trying to pretend you're in control

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  . ;-) ------------------------------------------------------- Shameless CPW Plug #1: Meet The Bloggers Want to meet these guys in real life ... requesting to join - it's how Emma and Michael (the admins for the facebook ... - if you aren't the sh*t, you're not going to get into MIT. Having said

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to ... real publication sold on newsstands that people actually want to read ... magazine with an extra section devoted to MIT-related news & articles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in ... physics). Just a heads up to the 4 other people in the world who test out of ... happened while I was on my way to my advisor's office to get his signature on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  you really wanted to embarrass (uh...) in the middle of class. By far ... heart throb of more than one female I know. To get a taste of this, here ... to serenade her. To give you some sense of how middle of everything

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  they're desperately trying to get away from you, but they can't because of the crowd. Does that ever happen to you? [Class mumbles in the ... ! [Class groans.] Come on, what else is there to do in bed?" 9.04, Neural

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on art in my dorm, East Campus. According to the MIT Mind and Hand Book ... to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, I'm not sure how ... 's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in ... students working late in lab, people psetting, athletes, artists, awesome

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... I’ve ever had to, an effect self-evident in me staying up late on several nights to finish aggravating p-sets, and in me having to think more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  campus from 12:30 to 1:30pm in the Stata Amphitheater. (Inclement Weather ... open to the entire MIT community and will be a great way to celebrate New ... of the MIT community and compete to win great prizes donated by local

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  came to my hometown, but just happened to be in Boston during one of my ... call two places home and I have many different people to call when I get ... cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  -learned lessons in mind, if not in heart. Maybe the only way to learn how to live is ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston ... for the equivalent of 6.5 standard classes, in addition to singing in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help ... )lucky as the delegates in this year's UNSC committee, you also had to stay ... leave the world better than how we found it - in some shape or form. And

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  with which Fleming has responded. In their honor, we wish to afford them the grandest celebration possible. And thus another great chapter in MIT ... In my email this morning: The Howe & Ser Moving Company cordially

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  audience member in my own life? Recently, I dictated to my friend exactly the series of steps required to charm South Asian parents. Dress in a ... success. But I was almost obsessive. I had to set the curves in my classes

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last & ... ; in the dead of night, the gold i had woven turned out to be dust ... something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... restaurant and even after when we were just getting some ice cream, because ... learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT ... , and the positive developments attributed to “getting out of the way ... , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  teammates. inevitably, we get to know each other (a bit), because, well, we ... walked into class and sat in my usual chair, and thought about how a young ... -class problems, because i didn’t want to start crying at one in the afternoon for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... learned how to drink from the milk bowl of MIT. I'm guessing this skill ... happened to me in these two and a half weeks in just one measly blog post

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013