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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to ... papers to realise that I actually had a life now. I had somehow found my ... this time, at eight o’clock, I still had a ton of things to do and I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to ... the river multiple times a month with the singular intention to go to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  bathroom, the film centers around the thing that happened to a freshman named ... : "IT'S A JOKE." 9:21 PM: Realize nobody actually knows what happened to ... dancing was a productive, well-deserved study break. Back to problem set

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I'm a blogger, and have gotten to know a little of the administrative side ... community. I look forward to being a sort of big sister to my student groups

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... apply to a school like MIT. As Petey wonderfully notes in his infamous ... you glance through this list, feel free to make a note of tools and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... of ingredients turns into a mountain of cookies[/caption] To make a ... chocolate chips, in addition to a ton of baking powder, baking soda, salt

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... out a way to succeed. At that point I had to stop yelling at him and ... piece of paper, society saw me as somehow qualified to be a grown up and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  who's a better writer, and I just took the opportunity to razz him about ... Fair. The fair is held every year at MIT, and Adam's award (a trip to a ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  teammates to make a presentation, look-alike model, and two working models ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert ... milestone was to have a product sheet, pricing, electronics diagram, and CAD

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a ... to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I ... from 5 to 7 pm is spent out on a turf field. Nearly every Wednesday is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  Park lends itself to cross stitching so a lot of my early work was South ... stitched the more and more I tried to figure out a way to monetize cross ... copyright violation. I sold a few South Park patterns but it never amounted to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  now. What used to be a maintained sting like an open wound, now merely ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... do great things, because if you had the guts to apply to a place like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... professor about a class presentation. “Cory,” I said to my boyfriend, “nobody

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn ... 't count.) Go on dates. Don't feel like every date has to turn into a ... college kids. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... floor, and I've noticed that there's definitely a cycle: from 2ish to 7 pm ... company, it's a good time to eat. Afterwards, people hang around and talk

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019