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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Senior Week events, I can tell I'm getting high off low-oxygen altitude ...   In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I ... , Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ended up with my first UROP: I attended a talk, thought it was interesting ... Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... : "I made my first resume when I was six; I knew eight different

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  what is? I remember reading Although of course you end up becoming ... knew how it would've ended, I wouldn't have joined in the first place ... decisions, I don't think I'd end up with the same ones. The version of CJ from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  shoveling the wings into his mouth faster than I could pick mine up. He ended ... 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

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  did eventually, last semester, but i pushed it to the end!"]learn how to ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... 's supposed to be comforting, obviously, I just find it really insincere. I mean ... shouldn't try to sugarcoat the harsh reality. I'm thankful to whomever

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  and ends. One evening that week I slumped upside down on the couch in ... This semester has been different from anything else I've done. I ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my ... things I found: This really pretty poster from 2011. I’m assuming it was ... initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... optional ... dorm? ME: ... FROSH: seems kinda dirty too ME: ... FROSH: i mean the roller coaster's pretty cool FROSH: but i would never live

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  end of the sword broke off entirely. I went and welded the other thin ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... hours considerably. And I made a dragon sword! First we had some lessons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  note="we're supposed to take 4 PE classes by the end of sophomore year. i ... (??) because I only heard about them and wasn't able to find them by the end of ... Happy [annotation note="so if you think about it i'm technically

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing ... awesome responses I got. Jenny R. ‘15 Eli [D. ‘15] and I painted our door ... warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know. I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... people you do see every day too. So I guess just make friends

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  From the moment I became an MIT Admissions Blogger, I knew I'd write this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... . ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  microscopic changes, I stay the same as a person, just like the end product of a ... I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very ... As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened, dawg. I don't even have some great, 1,000-googol-page-long entry saved up for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011