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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... international study abroad program, but that I also dove head first into a liberal

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most ... ability that did extra damage. Then spell packets for other spells. A spell

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff. I made a new floor sign for Loop #diy A video posted by Rose ... artistic, so having painted a mural is a very big deal for me. :) James H

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  help you find what you love. That’s what we’re here for. If a student ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... to have a system that's working for me now and impressing myself with ... times where you think "ok, this it the last time FOR SURE", but after a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... your classmates for the A. Yes, at the end of the day, the grades for ... (except for one class) like my classmates were "beating me out" of the A

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  correctly, nothing was actually lost. But for the trouble, we were granted a ... for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... School’s done a first-rate job on making me feel like an outcast for it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal-breakers (like a bunch of D's, for example). Assuming you're competitive, your application is then read by a primary reader who will summarize it at length for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  different from each other. For instance, med school places a greater emphasis ... promotion, or a more fulfilling life for everyone who pursues one. Once more ... of it. So, for a while, I was a bit turned off by academia, despite

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  puzzlehunt community, and what expectations I have for others, using a gift ... , and solving them represents fixing them. For the 2021 Hunt, there's a ... but feel that the 2023 Hunt is a narrative culmination for puzzlehunts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  for everyone else I emailed.[/caption] Josh replied after a few days ... , so I dropped it for a while. With a spark of inspiration, I looked ... floorpi for a semester, before moving to Epsilon Theta, an [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... worked as a video store clerk for 15 hours a week while maintaining top ... qualities you show with them, and whether those qualities are a match for MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  with me. I created patterns for a host of South Park characters and ... stitching. What's better than getting paid for a hobby you're doing in your ... made this Tesla logo). I even worked on a cross stitch for my son

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• 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 ... certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  coder as well as a mentor for a middle school team, and I loved the entire ... , I jumped on board. So for summer 2013, I served as a National ... excited for—and I’m giving a talk on plane crashes to one of our internal

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... Penn could be for me, a generality that translated into my barely

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  inputs for length, width, and height. Make a rectangle using your width and ... too limiting most of the time; they're a good starting point for ... dumping everything else in a pot and letting it simmer for at least 45

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... might imagine, quite a few of them! Unfortunately we do operate under some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011