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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  goals, and more interested in how I can accomplish them. That doesn't mean ... one sense it gives me joy, thinking about how I'll be an alum in the ... live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  that I would love to talk about in future blog posts! All in all ... England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  Head of House swipes us in and we grab food. I thought it would be a ... the gym in the EC basement, how convenient! 8.37 - 9:00 pm: I get my ... 's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  of us CEOs in our late 20s, and how everything would surface between us ... finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... CAD. In fact we finished the CAD. I left thinking that while the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... student) would normally afford for dinner. I never missed a group meeting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I was coming in. I knew Cru existed but not much about it, and after

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... family in thirty years. And I’ll be damned if I ever forget it.   ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... that–kids. When I first met my adviser, she must have mentioned how young I was at least three times. I live in the university dorms which are

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  minutes. Ex: I couldn't find your room because all the floors in Mc ... smaller segments. Ex: -Did you pass the swim test? -I did in fact swim four ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  remind me that I'm at the hardest school in the country, the fact that I ... you passed. What I've noticed, both from the comments in the admissions ... more NOT going to lecture than I would have if I attended. I ended up

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  hardships. But in times like this when we go through hardships, no matter how ... pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
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  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  .[/caption] Some Tips for Recruitment Keep an open mind! In high school, I would ... a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are ... pictures. One of my major regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... stats post, you are approaching MIT Admissions in the wrong way. When I ... interested in me. I was a very good young runner, but I wasn't one of the best

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006