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

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our ... people. They are my colleagues, classmates, college roommates and lab partners, and many are good friends. They are engineers, scientists

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  I've noticed, in my travels around the country and the internet, that ... was for female students, and whether I had experienced discrimination as ... against for their gender. MIT investigated and found that they were, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago ... HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it ... lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  plans. They were all very exciting, with lots of travel and warm weather and such. Then she asked me what my plans were for the break. "Work," I ... Campus Preview Weekend was yesterday, and we're already expecting more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

   (or rather, Papa Matt!) a congratulatory card. B) On Wednesdays and Fridays, I ... something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I ... thinking spots (mine is right across from this one and is labeled "Happy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  If you've never seen "Hackers" then you're depriving yourself and ... be Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). This ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and ... recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... her parents rather than herself, hiding all signs of struggle, and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... have glimpsed rejection and are already thinking about other schools. And others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  This semester I'm taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines, a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten ... designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... I'm really not that intelligent, and that there are many others who

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my ... amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and beastly exams and self-doubt and stuff. Though I hope that bit was pretty

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

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My ... sets and equations, I sometimes forget that I am actually on an academic

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  covered leopard printed Nike 97s, long black earring, and gold chain was in ... ironed blue slacks, and a brown belt tucking in a semi-buttoned pink and ... , brown and East Asian Google and Microsoft employees while across the chasm

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... has some administrative buildings, MIT medical, and Sloan. (Here, east ... has the name East Campus.) Then there’s north campus and northwest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... gyroscopes!). But there are certain feelings and observations, lessons and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009