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

  

  for those ten minutes. I’ve seen a dozen other sunsets from this bridge ... feeling of wonder for this place I've called home for so long. I spent a lot ... rather than above it like the 4 train, but I still keep my watching from a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  these paths. I can easily imagine a life where I become a grad student ... helped me figure out a lot about myself, and I can't thank you enough for ... could be a little bit warmer. I’ve been sitting outside the Stud for about

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I ... Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... MIT career, I dropped a course. There were a variety of reasons for ... last week. I still had a four- to six-page research paper for 4

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

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... handle because I had a really weak background in calculus. For other ... communication skills for prefrosh. I didn’t do too well and had to take a CI

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• 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 ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a ... Victoria Secret was having for their collegiate Pink! line. They had a list

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... from home asks my all-time-favorite “How’s college?!?!” Wooo - Here’s a ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so everything else happening around me was kind of a blur. Then I heard two loud ... In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  did need more people, so I said, “Sure.” And from then on I was a ... reach for the original dream. Allow me I guess to imagine glory, a handful ... E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  where the issues lay. However, I can see from time to time that you are ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... in tone as I approached the cash register. His moving from a soft and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  finish. There was also a Part 3, a poem I wrote on the plane ride home for ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... from MIT solely on the basis of being disciplined for participating in a ... expected from -- MIT students is a core feature of our educational mission

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  these for a class I took spring semester, CMS.840 (Literature and Film). I ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for ... ’t really have high expectations for but I ended up enjoying it quite a bit

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  a book for my troubles. So, now I can officially say that I have been ... Nobel thing) asked for a volunteer who had a watch. I had a watch. My ... -armed man for applauding" ** A group from Thailand for "the medical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  the raw numbers can be abstracted from an application and put into a ... this. They can't do it for all of the reasons I mentioned in the CC ... the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... hearing from you, [annotation note="probably, I’m not a TA or a professor ... [annotation note="certainly not A, for “I’m doing great!”"]O, for Absence

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  new ones. I mean, I have a job. A job where I'm paying to work for them ... transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word ... 't see you again for some time, but I thought I'd send a note anyway. It

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  open, I lay on my bed—a strange feeling emerged. I didn't care for work ... are going through a difficult time when I take study breaks, can make a ... as opposed to something that I can use to reach a certain goal in life

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... Optimization), and 15.276 (Communicating with Data). I have come a long way

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018