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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  thing tends to happen. At the image of eating a little bit of roach, I ... content warning: discussions of roach uwu Roaches are curious little ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  year of high school, when he placed at the Massachusetts State Science ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... his freshman year, and has been working at Draper Labs since the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried ... doing that, I just sat there staring at the slips of paper and trying to ... /puzzle-solving-sesh at the end of orientation. Apparently most people didn’t finish despite

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... list of games “You know, I just might be depressed.” “could a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question: "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most ... bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• 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.

  

  year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of ... years of urgent deadlines (Test! Lab of Doom! 4 PSETS! 2 Tests!), I seem

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  because Tetazoo is full of procrastinators, we only started at around 8:00pm ... rendering of the lineart. I sent it to Winnie, who was already at Metropolis ... Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... the seven of eight floors that have colorful ceilings, separated by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  lapping the edge of the ice, and two of the nutria nibble at grass and one ... thirty of them at a long table, and I wanted to sit next to everyone ... that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... , albeit reasonable expectations of its applicants. Chris Peterson put it ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... little knowledge of what I'm doing. Mostly going off instinct, referencing ... strip every couple of posts, if I think of a joke or something.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  admissions. The two of us were sitting down at Rockin' Rogers enjoying ... becomes serious. I spend a lot of time at MIT very stressed, this semester ... other angsty 20-year-old emotion I can throw at them. Through all of it

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  the terrain diagram, many of the springs are at points of locally high ... I can say, at the end of the day, is that this project was just a ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to ... will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

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

  what am i doing great question.

  

  effective. So, we should really be taking more advantage of that in robotics ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them ... complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  them from Mr. Neha constantly throughout the year. At the beginning of ... you'll need to either bring it home or store it at the end of the year ... functionality of a desktop with the portability of a laptop! Starting at $1999

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... and turns red because of science I won’t get into. Now, this itself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015