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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do ... about two questions: why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT, and why I was keen to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel laureates. I get home exhausted, and I suddenly remember that the time was 6

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  extremes of thirty degrees. we headed against the wind, tacking back and ... 's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire ... us. he took three chopsticks and arranged them as he explained. one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  Context and Anna's Being "Qualified" For MIT, as well as conversations (good and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere ... minority / from a rural state / an athlete / an artist / a traveling magician

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the ... and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is ... else is paddling that Earth-deep cliché back and forth? Might as well

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in postwar Canada") The Kansas and Colorado State Boards of Education ("for ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop ... , and about another 24 percent of students live in [annotation note="fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups"]FSILGs,[/annotation] which are mixed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of Dance. My voice unconsciously rises far too often, and sometimes I realize

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  state-mandated labour. And the apprehension I had in Tel Aviv – that too ... , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for ... morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  collaboration with dietitians from Boston area universities and health centers a ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in ... I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  decisions that year. The article states that "women and minority students may ... held virtually this year, and there's a large CPW Discord server where ... started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him ... instructive, that we often refer to universities as 'institutions.' Though that ... and mortar, institutions are customs and cultures, and this is how and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  fake, and I hate that. Maybe if I keep expelling the gloom, there will be ... lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  ’d gotten from my computer science classes and general institute requirements ... research in Germany, first at his hometown university and then at G ... , and geometry.) The math CI-Ms are small classes, taught almost

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... , Smith, Wellesley, Wheaton, Mount Holyoke, WPI, and of course MIT. After

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  to get the CS degree alongside my business one. And so that's why I ... and my budding interest in pursuing computer science despite not having much CS experience and not being very good at it. Now, nearly nine

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Instruments Company and diagonally across from the "old dormitories ... built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be ... christened together, and the '93 Dormitory would henceforth be known as

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  theory”-esque challenges run by anonymous gamemasters and $749 in prizes ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  state of mind, all like, “Okay, this is what’s happening, p-sets and ... , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This didn’t manifest any more than just a weird feeling swooshing around, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  undergrad institution with one of those friends back in high school and ... my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I'm constantly asking my fellow admissions officers and student tour guides for

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018