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  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... , especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is ... playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  deprived wasteland in my head. I checked my laptop again. 2 minutes. I ... obligated by social norms to stay right where you are. I looked desperately ... circumstances that faced me. A promise that I felt could only be realized if in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  things in a class without being officially in it; I've heard stories of ... most seven things per semester. I don't know where I originally heard ... in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are ... in your life when you can. If you write your best papers the night

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember--mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... describing the content, I’ll tell you about my classes in terms of the free ... production in some way, but I was so focused on solving the problem that I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  . It feels like I've grown. That much, I can tell. But in what ways, I ... February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... , obvious, but it really wasn't something I did before, not in any serious

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  of the blade -- except in a few places, where I squeezed it a bit too ... things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the ... element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , I felt somewhat reassured once more that I was in the right department ... maybe a dog ironically named Kitty. 6. If I wanted to, I was in a good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  intelligence research. I hope we can become as strong a leader in identifying and ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in ... space, you can do most anything: I’ve taken naps on the couches, grabbed ... -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
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  50 Reflections

  

  , where I now work) because they're certain they can't afford it. Given how ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... inspiring. I remember thinking: in 2004, the greatest technology school in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... (you were always on time, weren't you?)(That's okay, I wasn't). In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... CAD. In fact we finished the CAD. I left thinking that while the ... break, Erin and I came in every day and pounded out code until the motors

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the ... intergenerational in a way that the day-to-day blogs can never be, by the very nature

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011