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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  ’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non ... Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  school English Lit. education in order to install diskloads of nerdly lingo ... the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  are late at night. You have the rest of high school to sleep. K: Truth ... you're in the business of dying your hair a neon color, CPW's the place ... ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself. Take pictures of yourself wearing silly hats. Take pictures of your ... permission, of course.) Work on problem sets. Consider procrastinating on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  after you're done with school. College will keep you so busy, and you ... I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  lot more deep than many of the ones I made in high school. The way I go ... ” and out of state school I applied to. During the college app cycle a ... chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may know about the Muti Water Project, an initiative I had been busy working

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  middle of a semester can be hard, sometimes, due to scheduling and school ... One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... my offer of admission. It's been too long ago that I know I'm inventing ... Content warning: mention of suicide, discussion of death. Quotes are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... academic policies for incoming first-year students! Starting next school year ... [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  business by employing kids from school or some new shoe design you are trying ... place of toxic masculinity, ramped homophobia, and a too cool for school ... school had no resources or coaches and our team consisted of 8 members

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  Excellent Sheep in high school, and revisited it in college; parts of it ring ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

    Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  whole month of high school as easily as middle or elementary) and returned ... school, too far for many of the people in Muti to walk to for water. One ... teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  gets in the way of your work or school, you have to deal with it and ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  June, while in the heat of preparations of coming to school, I had to ... the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... at the start of each term appealing to the school for their project to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... 'm headed to UC Berkeley for grad school. Of course, the data also predicts ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a documentary about an Arizona high school robotics team of undocumented Mexican ... panel. Sofia Campos (MCP 2015), Jose G. (Course 16, Class of 2017), Renata

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  middle school, and the combination of such an inspiring professor with the ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009