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• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  , so maybe this is a thing I try to take next semester. (And probably on ... on how far i got, “desert” is also pretty tough. this is my personal ... beyond three but their ordering is a mystery that i will never know. there

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  realized that frat rush is a great time after orientation to meet some ... Beckinsale is a vampire, which you can tell because all vampires always wear ... pretty much already over for me. Bill actually turns out not to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  thing I want to do is leave to go to a dining hall. Hooray for food! ... I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until ... because I was in lab until 7 tonight -- yes, on a Friday night -- and that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  important thing is to be true to yourself. We know you lead a busy life ... what Portland is like, or how it has shaped me. In retrospect, the ... according to plan. How did you manage the situation? (200-250 words) I had a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  ! maybe i'll even be a blogger! and everything is going to go to plan ... WESTERN MUSIC. IT IS SUPER COOL."]i was sad and hass-less for a couple of ... realized that perhaps jumping into a dance group is not for me. i do not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  journey. It is as cold, as they say, as though we were in hell, and a sports ... and brew her a flowery, hot pink tea. 5:55 PM Work is briefly ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT's Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  thing I must mention is how infinitely cooler it is to visit the East ... concert, I'm so amazed at how talented these groups are and how much hard ... building because of a potential fire. At 5 in the morning, it is freezing

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  . There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in ... played in 2018. And the reason I did so is because I had a friend. I had ... scoring system is unique. [Kayode doesn’t know how to get perfect clears

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  : Applying Gravity”, and the board is Wicked themed. There’s a poppy field in ... .  This class is known to be a massive time commitment. On top of building ... .086 Numerical Computation for Mechanical Engineers 2.086 is a class that focuses

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  the pilot knows they did a good job. Otherwise how would they know, you ... of airline training'' "]how long he had to train to be a pilot ... , but look like they teach so much. I hate "failure", but I know how good

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  am super super afraid of bugs, and there is a bug currently in my room ... the financial aid award letter. In June 2019 I wrote a post about how I ... federal mandates regarding some of how the award letter is organized and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  like the right one. it feels like something much, much older, like a ... 've taken so far, it is swim class that has made me feel the worse about underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  is a nontrivial task especially for a show with as much interwoven ... —it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of ... musicals with conventional story structures have made me cry, too. Is it a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and ... ’d forgotten so much, even if it was just a momentary lapse. Maybe my memory ... . Each endpoint touches two periods, the ones before and after. This is a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  mathematics are very much a part of MIT's curriculum and culture, so too are the ... questions and working hard - even though the weekend is normally a chance to ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  them, anticipating the decision with you. A special kind of anxiety is ... :  "Success is to be measured not so much by the positions that one has ... ."  The idea is best understood with a metaphor drawn from my favorite sport

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  summer, the goal is to have a strong data set to back up statements of how ... there, that is. My January looked a little differently. In fact, I’d say ... , clinical research is quicker to application. It involves looking at how

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy ... , however, is a HERO; he rolled up the sleeves of his white button-down shirt ... other in more detail. Frank Wilczek is laughing with a theoretical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of ... that I played that piece as a kid. Muscle memory is a magical phenomenon ... : "The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014