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  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all ... responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left, just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... , and they will all look soft and warm and inviting in the same way the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me ... gradually see here. 6:30pm: Those in the office dig into the bi

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... blogging isn’t my “job” anymore), even harder. Many things in my life are

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab ... -- like I had some rational thoughts earlier today [ie, in the pod lounge

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... question: What does MIT value more: diversity, or merit? In its uglier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... administered in English. There are no minimums, because, ironically, the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... college search process, newbies flood the boards with "chance" threads, in ... ? Because the factors of admissions that can be readily apprehended in a forum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... acceptance letters anyway). I didn't believe in the "one size fit all" approach

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... prone to ants. 9:43 AM: Finding tupperware to put sugar in. 9:45 AM

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  descriptions. MIT has published a new catalog every year since classes started in ... insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... long Professor Artin has been teaching algebra in MIT. It turns out he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... ="107440" image2="107439" /] Can read more about Halloween on campus in Janet ... things I was really excited about. In short, there are about two times

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high ... .02[/annotation], [annotation note="Both classes in a semester plus January. If you ... kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be ... . In case you haven’t already heard the news, CPW, which is this weekend ... are sad In its place is CP✱, a sort of CPW-turned-virtual, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented ... . I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did ... ’s words from the night before: “There are 12 million undocumented people in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014