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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... .111 (Chemistry) and 14.01 (Intro to Microeconomics) Thursday: 18.02A (Calc II

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  who's a better writer, and I just took the opportunity to razz him about ... Fair. The fair is held every year at MIT, and Adam's award (a trip to a ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... first-floor hallway, to make a linear, multicolored, psychedelic display

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... of ingredients turns into a mountain of cookies[/caption] To make a ... chocolate chips, in addition to a ton of baking powder, baking soda, salt

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up ... coming up, but I did my best to keep them small, and focused on spending a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  of my friends know, I love airports – I have half a mind to spend ... cosmopolitan cities in the world. My five-kilometre commute to work takes a mere ... -decker buses and inattentive taxi drivers, I'm treated to a tranquil route

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores ... incitement to celebrate SHASS, and giving a lucid, balanced explanation of the ... , infused with careful critical thinking—a tribute to SHASS in style as well

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... and making cool friends through cool friends at MIT. To give you a ... back to visit a few times, and every time it's been a blast. Most

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  alive and like a human being part of society to try and pass this last ... I don’t even know what to ask. I know I need to give them a heads up ... ’ve come a long way and overcome so much this semester to even get here

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don't like math and science. But MIT is also not a good place to be if you only ... look forward to reading about your passions, too. Finally, with a month

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  experience and exposes you to a wide range of types of people and cultures (and ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... to the GECD. To try and entice you a different way, I will leave you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called ... about a relevant IAP course: The time our 6.006 (Introduction to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a ... who chose to commute an hour each way to attend a certain school, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  ) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... weeks to happen). my hope is that it can serve as one more resource, a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... to get a bladesmithing club together. They wanted to use a blacksmith ... club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  to our math olympiad summer camp, back at home, in a week. i made a ... , but collectively, it was a poor choice to have said yes to so many ... a whole hour before i set my alarm, and could not go back to sleep. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020