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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be ... voluminous, but somewhere inside I know that it is a means to an end, a tool I ... merely passing was a stretch, and getting an A an impossible leap. There

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... major delays to the site that you guys are. Also, I just did a measure of ... , by the way, if you aren't at MIT, you can still vote for us, so head

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  you can be better, you’re not good enough. You’re a slacker, you ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... , “you’ve always been a little crazy. It’s only recently that you’ve become

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  in a world where the same rules apply to them. This is the same country ... promise of a life where you can rise from bed in the morning and be ... at a laptop; the meme is captioned, “There Must Be Some Way This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  emotional growth? Can you list "became more emotionally mature" in a resume ... taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There ... 's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  for Concourse, ESG is a really great program. You can also sign up for ... you think you can handle it. It's really not interesting taking a class ... rough patches Chris on time management Sam on how MIT's difficulty is a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  is how much we rely on each other, and how much we can rely on each ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , especially at MIT. There are countless areas where this reckoning is needed ... recent door paintings have been made by a man named Glenn Silva. You can ... entered (to my knowledge it is locked) where there are lots of miniature

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  third bottle opener is a cool wavy shape where the bottom curve goes ... iron look like play dough. You can squash a workpiece in seconds when it ... when you make the end of a bar thin and pointy. rivets are like double

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  now, a half-century later, as the 2022–2023 application cycle is in full ... Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page ... undergraduate education is characterized by a flexibility and openmindedness that

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  coping, if you know someone who is—have a conversation, one that is honest ... that’s starting from the end, which is cheating. You know the end. The ... like someone else. “I understand why this is hitting you so hard,” she

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  fascinating! here is a great article, if you wanted to learn more']spread around ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to brighten your day. So, what is this dish? Pakaprow is a spicy Thai basil

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

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can ... be an intense, visceral feeling, because it can be, and that is how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  , which is also the older one: there's never been a point at which ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of ... significantly more famous version of hacking is performance hacking, where objects

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  imposters. The plus side is that after you break through, you usually have a ... , but it’s not always simple. Sure, sometimes you can come back with a witty retort and a raised middle finger. Sometimes you can’t. I had to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an undergrad begins with no major, being Undeclared. This is not a coincidence ... TINACBNIEAC by fans.']nothing is ever a coincidence.[/annotation] Okay, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say about the lessons you can glean from his story, particularly around joyful

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  -shirts (which you can't really see because we all had multiple layers on because ... . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018