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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  late, so I quickly checked in two of my luggage bags, hugged my uncle and ... thinking of majoring in? Person: Sorry, can you repeat that? Me: What ... through boxes of cereal and bunches of fruit until I found something that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  Monday, simply because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in any of my ... was one of those kids. I made it here. You can too. ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

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

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="400"] a snippet of when I had it in Thailand ... mortar and pestle MW: i chewed on in my roce and i had the oils of this ... as well relish in it.  To quote the above almond can that I snacked

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... number won a prize. If I recall correctly, one of the people in the photo

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  , especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is ... playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried ... -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a ... to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel ... ! --------------------------------------------------------------- It's not just the MIT node... I'm in Ohio and I'm getting the same

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember decisions day when i applied early action. i could barely concentrate in class ... almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  interviews in here. I definitely failed most of them. Red Pentagons (FOOD ... Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... "]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  kind of clicked in when I saw John Kerry. He's an important guy, and he's just standing right there! Like, RIGHT there, in front of me. I could ... come once. So, as I said, Obama was going to walk right in front of me

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... an uncanny similarity to that of Lord Farquaad, so I may have taken

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East ... condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase ... this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015, so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a ... picky in terms of what companies i'm willing to work for, and also have ... , I have a fairly high success rate in terms of the amount of second

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the ... , and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in ... you got in, it’s because you can handle it, and because you’re the kind

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  nasty habit to talk in absolutes. I'm guilty of this to. They say things ... and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... /incoming students before and I've never minded the amount of questions I get!! I love

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in ... mandating that children should not believe in Darwin's theory of evolution any

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013