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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  with.    Reason for God During IAP we do a series called Reason ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I

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

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

  

  ’ was my identity for all of grade school both in Ethiopia and America ... been playing the piano for twelve years while founding a club and playing ... dumped all my bookmarked links in a google doc and shared it with her. A

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... and Media Studies"--but that's a post for a later day. If you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  .] And then they called my name and I sat there with a really silly look on ... !!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in ... applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  set (we got to work with a partner, and we both agreed to put the ... applications, my UROP, being a news editor for The Tech, and, well, living. The ... -day Thanksgiving weekend doing a problem set for 1.00 (Intro to Computers and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... short time, and you'll appreciate having a time capsule to look back upon ... 's okay to step away from technology once in a while and catch up with all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the ... but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... hall service was switched to grab and go. There’s a table laid out with

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

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

  

  flying a drone is looking at footage taken from the drone afterwards, and ... with drones. However, it was too late to back out, and, after a ... This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  hungry during the race, promptly stopped for a feast and then fell asleep ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... evaluations of character or qualification, but a little silliness and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  microscope and with a multimeter)." /] [image_grid images="86853 ... -of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  your future career, UROPs are very educational for both research and ... with is difficult, especially if you have a mid-semester major crisis and ... a great option for people looking for very passive income so that you

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and ... looking for an edge in the admissions process, and the authentic applicants ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... took for granted any other time. I took a breath. The air was crisp, and ... gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  these for a class I took spring semester, CMS.840 (Literature and Film). I ... , and it turns out that the book was written as a screenplay for the movie ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  know, as well as a poignant and accomplished blogger. Enjoy! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one ... 's case, The Tube) until both we and the pterodactyls in our stomachs were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... begged the TA's for a regrade and they finally gave me a 60, subtracting ... Cambridge for the first time and set my sights on being a software engineer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  into a restaurant and order without looking at menu prices. Behind us, a ... , creative kids whom it was a pleasure to talk with and learn from. But most of ... from point A to point B, and at least the latter came with a dental plan

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  comforting me with a gentle breeze, it simply sat with hands on my neck looking ... idea how, I am not a bed scientist. My bed had been with me for 15 years ... outside scattered with particles of brown dirt, and a front flap that was

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... us that MIT would be a wildly better place with you on campus. And if you pursue your passion, you will have developed a love for and skill at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010