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  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students ... I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... 's drinking water from a bottle of what was once "Cloudy Apple"* juice. *Yeah

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
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  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... kids. kids who start their own businesses at nineteen, twenty years old ... ’re just kids. our jokes are a mix of violence and bathroom humor and we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  asylum, and one of them was e^x. The other mathematician was angry at e ... jabs at a school of other learned human beings? Teachers often invite ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... belong. At the same time I’m miserable, sometimes. IHTFP is the middle of ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  of them at once from the baggage-claim room to outside the airport ... to Random, and wished me the best of luck at MIT. The world needs more ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  rain, at least, not that I know of. I remember the first time I ... 'll recognize some of these names, if not all of them. A typhoon, back at home ... shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  this time, at eight o’clock, I still had a ton of things to do and I ... welcoming. At the risk of sounding partial, I will also mention that we had a ... stepping out of the haze of classes and exams and taking time to look at the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  felt like I was carrying a lot of stuff at once. It was so ironically in ... community, hard at work pursuing projects, bright and energetic. One of the ... talking to most of the people I once knew. And whenever I meet anyone new, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  of time alone to be at my best. It’s not like I was insanely social ... is a light at the end of the tunnel—and they are often true. images ... plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... a new movie every two years at best. 18.02 psets come out every week

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at ... will at least change the way you think of bikes. "In order to become ... interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  stitching. I was part of a mass-layoff at work a couple weeks ago and have ... in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  tamer: we sat down in front of our computers, stared at a spreadsheet, and ... , at the sort of point-of-no-return of the program, without a single ... talked about our mutual surprise at the large, large number of students who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... and you all will (or have) receive at MIT. Part of that preparation is ... The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  available. And now, a selection of various dishes I have made this semester at ... good at cooking. consider this an a d v a n c e d cooking post. (because ... of food. As the legendary French chef Auguste Escoffier once said, “la

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  by stupid luck. Simply being at MIT, of course, increased the ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... some autumn pieces of our cozy quiet neighborhood—closer to Harvard than ... both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  recharge after a couple months of work, but at the end of the day I was still ... slightly embarrassing photo at the top of this post: all of the musical ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... bag on the sidewalk of the LA Convention Center at 0400 in the morning ... sings at the top of her lungs, and, yes, my daughter's happy going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021