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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange ... .  Secure a room in student housing from the Housing Office.   ... for Switzerland in less than 2 months, so you just freak out, but

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably ... thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place ... life. You will struggle in classes that don't feed your soul, completing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  "]for historical reasons,[/annotation]opened in April of 2018, after SL1, SL2, SL4, and SL5 were in service. CJ: We filled a couple blackboards following ... route through a whole loop, and even run between adjacent stations. In

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  "]MITHIC[/annotation], which is a platform for collaboration between the SHASS and departments in ... in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint ... friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  together—a story that starts in the 1980s and ends today. There'll be actual ... weekend CPW's origins are rooted in a program for prospective women and ... wrote in the 1984 Report, "the character of MIT’s student body is dictated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  all the Secret Service agents in the room. But it was a good day. A ... MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news ... , pressure washing everything in sight, replacing windows, emptying stores of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for ... Wallace stood in a gigantic tree. We also built products. The first month ... popular of my ideas was an adjustable platform boot that could lift a person

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... year, in order to 1) see what actually happened and 2) figure out what I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... MIT sororities since most are majority white and Asian. In the middle is ... at her church who were. She started to learn more about D9s in middle

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  story. Unless it’s a matter of health and safety – in that case, use your best judgment. It’s okay to say no to things too. Leave space in your ... classmates is a good place to start. Staying in your comfort zone is easy, but

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  -profit PERIOD when she was 16. PERIOD has over 800 campus chapters in the US and ... describing the period in which her family rented their home as income while ... ’s article titled "A Call for Accountability: Anti Blackness in The Menstrual

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  , in anonymous forum posts to college applications to conversations with ... One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• 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 five videos (in reverse chronological order) and written some notes and ... striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  50 Reflections

  

  .mit.edu portal) was the first publishing platform we used for the blogs. In the ... celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  helped, but is not necessary) MIT was the most helpful in figuring out ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Grad schools come in a lot of different flavors—med school

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018