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  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I ... procrastination. I could claim I had seven hours of writer's block, but in reality

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read ... application wouldn't be on my pile in the first place.) By now I'm fully invested in you so I write a gazillion nice things about you in your summary

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  made this video without you all ♥ I included my script below, in case you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... partners in crime for the week. I was on the orange PRC team, and it was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command ... "] voila, a cube[/caption] Now, here's where parametric design comes in. Let ... . Lastly, array this cube in a 25x25 array, and you're done. As you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  , in true form, what the term "bleary-eyed" really means. Mind you, I was ... group, we pulled week-long mixing sessions where I rotated on 4-5 hours of sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question ... doritos—but make peace with myself if there is a week or month where i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... 'm really sorry. Errrrkk. I'm going to.. uh, yeah. Sorry. You actually can ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  .013 (General Biology), a class with at least 300 people in it, where I would not ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high school, I knew college applications were coming up and that everyone in my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  compare Melis' to mine you can note the differences - I guess significant ... so I can see what the heck was on it - I was quite surprised actually ... them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... then there are my professors, who have, as far as I can tell, been ... continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... institution)? If you have, I’d love to hear about it in the comments section ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  where we refine our own design skills in a series of increasingly complex ... , forming a pit in which it can trap and digest slightly larger creatures ... ." Critters that scale the Stack in search of water or bugs to eat can be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... competitive soccer career. When I was in seventh grade, [annotation note

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not even sure why I took organic chemistry, since I was interested in math

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016