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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did ... . After rushing back from Chipotle, I speedran a more cleaned up digital ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we ... unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... college was like 3000 km away from my hometown, it was so weird. I was in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  literally a decade ago; but, I can definitely say that I knew that MIT existed ... to MIT for a science research camp, and I remember hearing about how ... where I’d like it here. I talked a lot that summer to my older friend

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  changing texture. Why do I feel called to write about where I am from? Why ... : Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion) Where I Was From (Joan Didion) Blue ... . Afterwards, eight or so of us went for coffee. I wrote down a list of my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  wake up for class, and asked if there was a way I could make up the lab ... -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a ... from all of them) Jobs acquired: currently, none :( I still have a few ... company they have the bare minimum of qualifications for. I recently read a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  where we refine our own design skills in a series of increasingly complex ... or even evolving something realistically; I think it is mostly a ... ; Day 2: Pocket In transitioning from a Web to a Pocket, the critter has

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

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead ... learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  schoolers, where teachers teach a series of classes over seven Saturdays, from ... mind off the program, if only for a little bit. I was tense, worried that ... was stepping out, for a bit. And then I cried. The fruit of my labor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  failed a test I studied two days for. Then I slept for three hours a night ... for lateness. I also had a 6.002 circuits due that Friday, which I ran ... all nighter, working from midnight to 8am, taking a break for food, then

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  student) would normally afford for dinner. I never missed a group meeting ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab, debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... and not them and that’s all. Not because I’m not doing A, B, C and I can ... worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Harbor (for a really cool Freshman Pre-Orientation Program), I experienced ... to the district for a snack at Bova’s Bakery, where delicacies are ... . Regardless, Haymarket is the place for best grocery deals, ones a buyer can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry ... the pattern for ulan is, as I mentioned earlier, a brief period of rain ... , but it's always a nuisance. You can go for weeks, months, years of your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  [/caption] This sophomore year, I was roped into making the dish for a [annotation ... I will take all the help I can get. it's a ~journey~ best trekked with ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though ... was led upstairs, where French House and a recently-baked chocolate cake

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is somewhat self-evident. When I said college was a "socializing institution", I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  largely homogenous suburban neighborhood where I grew up to a playground for ... 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

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016