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  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  day of school; afterwards, I had planned to split my time between two ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  way I had a group of friends in high school. My most precious MIT ... school down the road at Hahvahd. That kind of thing happens a lot, too ... ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... few comments from members of SHASS. Before the area was hacked, the ... with the values inherent in the choices of this display and are

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel ... group set to running the scripts on some of their favorite other schools ... addition was a little pink star above the top list of schools. On to us

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Even though we’re only two weeks into the start of the Spring semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can ... all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... a Game. There's plenty of other meaningful prose by other brilliant ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever ... . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT ... that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  , I was in their shoes: a senior in high school. A couple of them are ... When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... communities around you full of people ready to support you, and you will have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  school math contests. Each country sends a team of six people, who all come ... . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... , terminating both his life and my dreams of graduating (as well as my reputation ... minutes into his lecturing, so everyone in my recitation was well aware of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... each of them. But I hope, regardless, you'll enjoy reading both or one of ... when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just (maybe)barely totaled 56/120. This is 6.046, Design and Analysis of ... I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  continued success. I entered high school and, with the help of my co ... Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever ... . Some of you brilliant prospective MIT students know exactly what I mean

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... read an old MIT brochure from the 1980s I discovered at a school I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004