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  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  elsewhere, if only for a few hours; one where a weekend trip with friends ... myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don ... into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  . They can have lifetime health problems afterward a from carrying the ... , you can inadvertently turn one of your sources into a drain for another ... from Google satellite data, where those curves in the photo represent a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... 3 seems pretty cool.” I guess for most people, it’s not such a hard ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  classroom from the window. I can wear mismatched socks and plop down on the ... , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llmzLHExcnw We did a group order for lunch from Flour Bakery and Cafe, which, as ... ordered food left theirs sitting on the floor for a bit. I decided I was ... sleep nonetheless. I did another COVID test, ate a banana for breakfast

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  . Sidequest 9: Build a thing. I built (with a LOT of help) a shelf for my loft ... for a long time. Realistically, it’s my freshman year in college, and I ... aimlessly has been somewhat disheartening. I’m more than a little excited for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a ... site because it's hilarious - and it's also where I got the above two gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a highly competitive applicant. I had taken several AP classes, I had a perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  you are timelike separated from a reasonable hour for phone calls ... euphemism for a depressing lack of something. Ex. 1: I had the null set for ... “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  desk for them, I’ve seen that space can be limited. So, dorm gyms come ... close to Maseeh, where I live (it’s literally a straight line across the ... a really large and generally empty dance/yoga room, where I could

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  astrodynamics for the first time. I remember doing a 16.07 lab where we had to ... orbiter after taking samples from a planet or asteroid. Right now, I feel ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do . . . perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it ... ’s call it a tail—yeah, tail. Hey! I can really thrash it about pretty good

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  would make for a particularly interesting blog. So instead, I figured I ... a case) Spotify (for background music) I split Safari and Sublime ... encounter it in the case (a town I've never seen an applicant from, an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for ... most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... where I UROP in real life and Chris was once a research assistant. I had ... , I can imagine a black, female, mechanical engineer--because I’ve seen

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester ... from last year"]more times[/annotation] than I had opened a bottle, it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  directions, for any amount of time, toward horizons whose features I can’t see from here. I can raise or raze my own mountains and plant my own ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ; I can end up working at a job or researching for a while longer, and ... progress I always expected. I don’t feel like I’m in a position where I can ... road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021