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  Share the joy

  

  might you want to encourage these juniors to consider? First, the three ... you updated when there's more to be said. Maybe about this time you ... school Class of 2006) that you know and encourage them to expand their mind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  MIT 2017 was the perfect time to let loose and code up my first blockchain ... do or quit moment. I had quit my first hackathon and I wasn't going to ... My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  my first elementary school, they had to ask the school to not put me in ... I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  order, they were: 1) to finish my first engineering project 2) to make ... I just came back to my dorm room from all the graduation hooplah. I ... strange feeling (being graduated, not being sunburned. I'm plenty used to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and ... got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my alarm clock) to find that the power adapter askew enough that my laptop ... trudge through the rain to Sunny's, the greatest breakfast joint in

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  SAGAN MADE MISTAKES???) Neil: "but he was the first [to do highly ... 'm not the first, so I've been able to learn from his mistakes. Carl often ... &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  's Guide to the Galaxy. Similar to gateway drugs, this book is the first step ... This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to ... to your interests. And share those! They're probably awesome! -Sleep

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  I’m coming back to cross stitch on campus again It's been three years, but I'm back!

  

  ago. Those attending that CPW are now going to be wrapping up their ... reading this (blogs and I are old and outdated, but we cling to relevancy), probably don't know who I am or why I visit CPW every so often. Allow me to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  -up" LBizzle, I most definitely have got to order a t-shirt as well; at first, I ... . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  handicap. This is the first thing to get over when you come to MIT. A lot of ... /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  the Grand Tetons[/caption] This spring, I had the chance to reconnect ... made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem with how that information was stored. when many memories are similar to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  getting, we had one picked out and ready to order. The first day was a huge ... almost 6 weeks. I saw one of the first friends I made when I got to MIT, a ... research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  whole days to decide where to live this year. As for me, I seriously considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided to confirm my original assignment at Burton-Conner. The adjustment

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  have been going pretty well—my first week flew by since i had frontloaded all my work to prepare for my boyfriend staying over, but now that he's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  my dorm room stuff, I'm going to need an intervention. First we moved ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my stuff. I'm not entirely sure why. I always think that moving is going to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  This post is dedicated to 2021s who aren’t sure if they can survive ... new Pilot 2021 optional meal kit plan. The appendix also compares it to ... section is also a cautionary tale about dining claims.  First, an important

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  week that we will not be getting this year, we present to you the very first Senior Week On The Blogs!!!! It is often when things come to an end ... all has been a true honor. But alas, all good things must come to an end

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues ... an exam. This semester, I'm going to experiment with rewriting my notes ... first legit lecture so it's maybe a little oversimplified"]today's lecture

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019