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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... favorite artists. Or we could go on an adventure. There’s this nice spot in ... expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two in the morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... if you know either Nisha or me in real life—even tangentially ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at ... it's 10pm and i feel silly going to bed in case something else happens

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to ... deprived wasteland in my head. I checked my laptop again. 2 minutes. I ... dancing along my back in its high heels, stabbing my skin with its piercing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an ... grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... times were probably in their rooms behind closed doors, waiting for the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... truly the smartest in my class. However, this past year has shown me that ... I should have gotten B's in several other classes as well, but I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... -shopping, as was Melis's list. If you're interested in finding out what you already have in your room, that list'll let you know: essentially, bed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in Ethiopia like Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network were dubbed in Arabic because ... Diaries💀💀 but I digress"]show.[/annotation]   Meanwhile, sometime in June, my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the ... student in the class showed, into wavy table legs). we also learned how to ... element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now ... science major (with a potential double major in ???? because there's too much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There ... 's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... , I guess. God, why is this so difficult? I’m just talking in circles

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  respectively. And that was really reflected this weekend in the difference ... , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... reflected in this. And right after I finished at 9:30 tonight, I was hit by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018