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  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  day? I'll start: To have something of my design land on Mars." I ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
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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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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... school publications, but most likely while describing the future purpose of ... creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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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 ... what sort of water data to look for, how to design our solution, and what

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , because it's again negative ridiculous degrees outside, and the rest of the ... , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for my undergraduate degree. It's a quirk of my schedule that my 24 ... day of school, it's the last school night and therefore the last cocoa ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... depressed, due to the intense nature of school, I felt incapable of reserving ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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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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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  acid. MIT is a steaming pile of muck. The smell of the once-great school ... : That was East Campus, video by and courtesy of Eric Lujan ‘19, screaming ... , not all of which is residents, from 7:07pm Sunday, May 3, through 1:47am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education"]OME[/annotation]—likely my freshman year [annotation note=" My senior year of high school, I ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  . Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... no stress—no exams, no due dates, no daunting expectation of quality

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Unfortunately, after a lot of really well-designed experiments, it just turned out ... 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

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  principles of design, which are sets of visual terms that I learned in my intro ... . Desserts offer more flexibility in terms of color and textures, and after ... her it was for a school project (which is true!!).  Back to Table of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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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 ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• 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
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  , though. Almost all of my messaging in high school happened over [annotation ... of leaving high school and growing up and maturing. Whether I’d have ... socialness; feeling more adult, but also more lonely, in grad school"]dozens of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  of bridges, had to design theoretical bridges, and will continue to do ... weirdly, some of Harvard’s campus. The bridge is fine by design, looks nice ... alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  , there's a lot of similar ideas in designing websites and designing ... talks about the philosophy of designing Java. It's a great talk, and I ... influenced how I designed Hydrant, a rewrite of Firehose. Firehose is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... 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

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017