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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  homework and realizing how much better I’ve become at patiently disentangling a challenge. MIT is paradise. I cry sometimes. I love it here. My only ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

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

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood ... facing the street. I am sharing it with you because 1. There is a store on ... Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  want to spent my time, how much water I consume. This is but the start of ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... person and realise there is a $40 or something fee, but what else are you

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  stumbled out of this place having found just that. (The following is a non ... she wasn't able to graduate, she most definitely is a part of mine. tl ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one.   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual ... . However, during [annotation note=" Rush is 'a chance for new freshmen guys

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

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  Nigerian university is different and purely quantitative, depending on a ... to sacrifice that much for my happiness. I thought of how my ... ’s alright to be invested. If this is about where you will spend a good chunk

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  ! How do I get into hacking!? Is it a club or something? Well thought out ... MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  galaxy brain move is asking WHY after a YES."]a lot of NOs are not followed ... 't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are ... one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... didn’t manifest any more than just a weird feeling swooshing around, and ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  turns out publishing a series of consecutive posts is not easy, even with ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... stories or letters to applicants (though it is always great to practice a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... response to “how” is that it was facilitated by parents and their connections ... challenges. None of that is achievable by simply following a path that has been

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  my day into a single statistic, which is how much work i got done, how ... this was a mistake. it feels as if my work is tearing my body apart, as ... about this a month and a half ago, but the gist is that i’m working in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  to Prudential and complain about how expensive everything is. We could ... about how expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two ... about how tired I'm feeling, and for a moment, it'd feel like I could live

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  , I guess?). My story is still very much unfolding, but MIT was a part ... is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A ... ’s anything you take away from this story, it’s that shame is really not a fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  how your UROP is going, seeing your a cappella group perform. I come ... same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  isn't fiction: this is Earthrise, a view of the Earth rising from the ... several miles above the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a ... had to come to terms with not being a whale any more. This is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  course, this process is a little smoother—return offers from post ... settled into a comfortable rhythm, one that is distinctly different from the ... rejection is not just a possibility, but also a likely one. I spend hours

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  fall. My summer lasted three-quarters of a year. Some summers are much ... . Last week, I spoke to a girl who enjoys being here so much that she might ... among friends, much less at a table full of strangers. I always ask people

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014