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  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for ... , life is precious and tomorrow I could die in a freak accident, so I should ... summaries at three a.m., since I am much too soft-hearted to watch horror for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  went off to distant lands for the summer are finally coming home, and ... 'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be ... (free for freshmen!), or the growing Admissions wiki, or a map, or the

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  good with numbers. But hey, I'm surviving! And it's actually kind of a ... -flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there ... , he looks like a really nice person. His face is the most indicative of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  which Africa has influenced art of all kinds and, with this influence ... , also available at the booth ------ Both my dorm and the Class of 2007 ... I'm flying to San Francisco for the long weekend -- hope you kids in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  , he was given a rose. The Muses ran off, and the lecture continued. A ... candy factories (including those for Tootsie Roll, Necco Wafers, and ... toothed students are sad, those looking for even more in the way of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  it, it's a delicious experience for the mind, the mouth, and the wallet ... burrito, with a whole wheat tortilla, rice, beans, lettuce, salsa, and ... , parents and the I-have-to-buy-groceries?-type : there are dining dorms with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  thankful for all of the admissions staff for (a) letting me into MIT and (b ... bloggers (this one needs to be explained later), and learned quite a bit ... Schmill, Kim Vandiver (Dean for Undergrad Research), and me ???: <

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  together and passing faster and faster, like sand in an hourglass falling, a ... reminder of death. this is the mirage of novelty, and it has a simple ... has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and ... sample diagnoses using an app and attachable lens, and even an app for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  Court. It was due to this decision that I spent an hour and a half of this ... your way in four days and an orgo test coming my way in a week, it'd be ... inherent in counting down the hours, minutes, and seconds to 3/14 at 1:59 pm

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  designed machines and built things with my hands, but then I ached for the ... and getting good at it, as if I was holding out for a better goal. In ... programming for plasma physics research before and barely knew what a class was

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  write an essay about how you dealt with a significant challenge for your ... above, and watching my friends get straight As for multiple semesters in a ... struggle with the jobs process at all as a sophomore, and didn't really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  for you to talk, shake it off, and remember you will survive, even ... : stove cook your oatmeal, and never look back. We understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse in the

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  other relatives, and laughter, and she looks up at me, with a trademark ... patch of 3-in-1 oil that he used for model trains, hitting his head, and ... ’s nickname, Abush, who has a way with all the small kids and is always their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  girls and have a behind-the-scenes look at the magazine world. Pick up the ... 2004. I received the application from a sorority sister and filled it ... photo shoot time. The girls were from a spectrum of schools and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  just come from his final paper defense for philosophy and I had a ... at least a little holiday joy and optimism (whether or not you ... decorated with more winter things. My high school went mildly hard for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  tomorrow and you can fail to solve them for yourself (just like I did on all but two of them) and then look at the answers down below. Really, with ... 're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  . And then occasionally, for a real thrill, we'd go watch the B ... drive home to New Hampshire for a hockey game. My brother and I were part ... things flying off the ice but this time we threw them on and for a great

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  for Ghana, India, and Lesotho, with more to come. Of course, this is ... hands-on work isn't done with a formal organization [ref: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc ... a lot about the design and fabrication of complex machinery, then you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  year, I applied and was selected for a scholarship program that studied ... , literature, religion, art, politics, and economics, with a special focus on the ... Don't you hate it when your computer freezes and you lose a huge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006