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  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  working on things that are too small. Take a step back, stop worrying about ... can save the world.  I'll put my life on this interview right now. It ... the things that keep us alive on the Earth, the Earth gonna survive. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  completion my real estate agent swung by to check on the progress.  She was ... no other.  Every 2-3 months I'd use the configuration tool on Tesla ... called the real estate agent I used to buy it and we got it listed on the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I ... love with moths. Turns out that one in ten species on Earth (including

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 ... being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you ... where bloggers post advice on rejection, acceptance, financial aid, your

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ’t want to read all of this boring stuff, skip right on over the stuff about ... , more Chinese food) at Mary Chung’s. The girl on the far left is Ming ... -time transformations on it. This little gadget (involving multiple expensive projectors

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  , the other characters on the show might have all hated her, but that ... ANNOYING. In any case, she was the only strong female character on the show ... being a total drain on the reputation of females everywhere, and then she

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  stupid story about how I gave blood or ate at a foodtruck or stepped on a ... . However, I feel like I've been so delinquent in responding to comments on ... TOMORROW there's an entry on CANOES! Hokay, so... Bicycle Race Dan: "Does

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... one major, it's not as difficult -- you can pretty much plan on taking ... you want to soldier on, though, you can just look at the degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  to my post on cross registration, "How can MIT undergraduate students ... open; there is no period where students are not allowed to live on campus ... blog about the transfer process. I promise it is on my list of future

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  concerned about. Tragically, I see my peers falling into the same trap. On ... half-explain/half-give advice on academic preparation for your freshman ... here! Freshman fall, all classes are taken on PNR, or Pass/No Record

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... elsewhere, I have stayed as a civil engineer throughout my career, working on

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... available to them.”  A corollary is that “…we may look just as favorably on

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a poem, when it works, is an action of the mind captured on a page, and the ... I found this in my living group’s library and started it on a whim. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to ... give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  , you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to ... , when i'm on edge and i'm worrying and things are on my mind, i can keep ... nor flight but freeze. because on the good days, the meds work. the meds

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  Rat” emerged in 1929 to reflect the prominent beaver on the bezel of the ... on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... my sophomore year, before COVID-19 had left its mark on campus. It was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  lots of cool things happening here on campus too! Like: Classes Many of my friends on campus are taking classes! While there are classes, they ... dollars in prizes, and an opportunity to work on software-related projects

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  went on until i snapped, slammed my laptop shut, and went to bed ... to put nothing on my gcal. i spent most of it with casey, but also with ... jynnie told me -- i'm the third senior on our hall to drop OS this semester

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... a high schooler to have on hand in the September period of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  -necessary, non-lecture classes to get to on Tuesday. This was my first year not ... money. If you drop any later the class will show up on your transcript as ... will only show up on your [annotation note="the one that MIT keeps, not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018