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• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in ... decisions; and having permadeath, meaning once your character dies, you have to start over from the beginning. The archetypical example, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  Board schedule and realized that unfortunately you’re all almost done with AP exams ... still a thing?) or your school is like my high school and has finals the ... , because it reminds me that I have strategies, and makes me feel less like I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  friend who was a current MIT student friend who offered to take her and any ... By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... station, and to our surprise and delight, there were 4 other MIT ‘12s there

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  – How to Save a Life and Reese Lansangan – No Snow, both mentioned 2 times ... -up are Cheats and Munimuni, both with 3 songs. There's 5 songs that are explicitly covers: Minsan, My Body Is a Cage, Dear Kuya, Mamma Mia, and Hurt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  . People introduce themselves as coming from states, and not provinces. Back ... big stuff I’ve already seen or heard of through the American films and shows I’ve watched since birth, and that media consumption played a big

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  the blogs, but the situation with senior haus has been on my mind and ... , give one-sided, pathos-inspired opinions or rants about what I think and ... unbiased as possible, and then tell you about what happened to me earlier

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle, analyzed samples of roman concrete, learned how to mosaic and fresco, visited the colosseum, pantheon, and several archeological sites, did research

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  down and instantly get my degree?? 9/9/21 My friend sent an email to ... semester, sweet and sour, while I looked through my photos. Let's start at ... the email, recognized my friend's name, and screenshotted it and sent it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  University of Michigan, with the group that uses and produces signac, a data ... many do! And among those who do, so much variety exists, in quantity, arrangement, aesthetic, and content of stickers. It's true, you can tell a lot

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  -up to the hack entry and answer some questions about it if I can. (Plus I ... Jersey. It's in Monmouth County, in the central shore region of the state. Exit 114. =) Now, on to the hack: After like an hour and a half of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  Last Thursday morning, I met with my therapist and told him about ... , telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite ... coronavirus and covid-19 and even just [annotation note="rip to all the beer

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  jumped in to the kid's defense and started roundhouse kicking those bikers ... finished them off when the second to last one snuck up behind me and pulled a razor blade! I had just finished off his buddy and turned around to face

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  MIT's signs and posters carry diverse [annotation note='You might be ... distnction doesn’t matter here. And third, xkcd 1475.']fonts ... . But the website for the Atlas Service Center uses Flama, and the Atlas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  reparations and systemic injustice in the United States. I found it hard to ... Francisco. If you haven't yet, you should start by reading part one and part ... morning! The sun is coming up over Denver, CO, and it is a beautiful day out

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  ,[/annotation] I sacrificed six nights' worth of sleep—an offering of my life source for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... them equally endearing, and it would It's Chandler be unfair to judge

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  : #1 ranking in your school/class/state/country, maximum GPA and 2400 on ... addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that ... and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  of childhood: dorms and dining halls, an institute that makes it easier ... was talking about would pass (ha). I was eager for college and hungry ... 'd hoped for, what I did, and what I'm hoping to do. I mentioned being

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend reading the profile

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  soon to be Ph.D advisor, and the third was with Marah Gubar-- an amazing ... semesters. This class was called the "Wilds of Literature," and the main idea ... visit it a number of times throughout the semester, and then write about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a ... dining is not like that bad and I had a 60 meal plan last semester ... in town that lets you rate all the restaurants you've been to, and yes

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025