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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  with bending and how they can work in harmony or clash, and I love the ... everywhere, and I can't tell if it's because it was always there and I just ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... half actually screwing the sheets in. I expected plywood flooring to take ... finalized, I embarked on a sidequest to rig up the net in the center. It took

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your ... certainly worked hard back then, but I was never forced to engage in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  interstitial fat around the gut, I unrolled the intestines as carefully as I can with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the ... before I started dissecting the head, I leaned in a bit too close and saw a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions ... role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , so I had 'em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more ... whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  's window. I remember thinking that this can't be our last goodbye, but in a ... everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in ... thing does not currently exist in my possession. Two Fridays ago, I threw

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  helps me remember where I came from and where I’ve been, which in my ... (which I mention in my blogger intro). I’ve always thought Jenny was too ... least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  am the one thing in life I can control.” The single most formative ... million things you can’t control. You can’t control where you went to high school or where you’re from geographically or what your gender is. You can

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... better. This should be the breakthrough where I finally fall in love with ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... , this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in ... the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... [/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been ... office hours, I feel just a little like a genius. Students come in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  in structural engineering. I’ve taken many classes where we’ve pondered ... ’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... structures is farther up my alley than telling you what’s in them. I’m sure

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020