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  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... compare the two for fun. But anyway! During high school, I: Didn ... the end. I was never a bad student, but initially more the type to go

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  three points, and then I will bend them to point in the fork-hat direction ... . In summary, though, I would highly recommend taking a freshman seminar ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his ... . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben Jones' 50 Things as a student. I recommend you keep his post open while

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
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  The end of a chapter

  

  exams which ended early June, I immediately set off for some traveling (I ... and also took care of me when I had high fever and horrible sore ... farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... -preserved 82-year-old form. Especially because I really thought he was dead. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  expressed their intent to live in apartments, so I ended up stapling with the ... those relationships definitely don't end with the dorm. I remember ... My favorite thing about MIT, by far, is its vibrant dorm culture. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Management. i based it around ecobrutalism (the meaning behind the hanged man ... . Anyway, I noticed this a few months ago, made a Twitter thread about some correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  preferences, my top choice is almost always the Z. I really like having a slew ... . If the Z is closed, I’ll either ask one of my BC friends to tap me into ... rather than end my day with that. I lift most days. But, if I really didn

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  much of the summer, I worked with Whitney Z. ‘21 designing, iterating ... . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... . Also, I highly doubt that you can properly collude with everyone. So yeah

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  rumored to live. But we don’t have a sorting hat, so I made a sorting hat ... ? So here we are: a probabilistic underwear sorting hat. I may not ... bras and panties all; I’m the Probabilistic Underwear Sorting Hat And I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  than others it wasn't as if I was about to vote one off of the island ... questions, but I'm trying to catch up now that I'm home, so please bear with me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  people in the ESP team volunteered to help out, I still ended up ... end of the email I was crying. I was trying to hold it back, but it didn ... teach math for a few hours, I got takeout because man I was feeling bad

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  want to be happy? B: Because I want to be happy. The conversations end ... most complete end is happiness, which is the most complete human good; i ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  some of my own adventures -- I spent nights in Hawaii at such high ... research. That dot product is pretty high compared to other things I could do ... -- there can be fixes. At the end of the day, I really believe that research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  Jessie L. '07 I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog by ... Barkowitz Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years by Cristen C. '10 what i talk about when i talk about running by Chris S. '11

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  black cowboy hat (he attached the tassel to the brim.) I'm not sure about ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to deal with was cleaning my room. It was pretty relaxing. I didn't even

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  industrial town in the north, I taught debate to high schoolers ranging in age ... as difficult as I expected, and high school is high school even in ... in the end I wished I had another week, just for the students. I stayed

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  a map of the MBTA. I love the MBTA a lot, and Alan Z. '23 and I once ... I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  'm gonna roll with it. Once your “I just got into MIT!” high school senior ... .” Eventually the semester ended, I went home, slept like a normal person, re ... I had met realized that the duct tape hat fit neither of us, she was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015