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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the ... ’re not using it. One evening I was chilling with some friends in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... ; I usually worked on the big mural in my apartment just because of the ... ) ... ... and when I’m alone in some other city on a work trip (which is where I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  to know there. I didn’t have a “group of friends” in college the same way I had a group of friends in high school. My most precious MIT ... ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... , and did. *** Now I am back in Cambridge. It is the morning of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to ... of a family friend. In February I got a temporary job at the census. I ... ; that I was a fraud from the beginning. In reality, there were a lot of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  where I am now. :D) Living in the graffiti-adorned projects of the Lower ... worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... when I moved in, then three shades of green when I painted it, then brown ... At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about ... that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out ... feel kind of bad now, thinking back: I was in the completely wrong frame

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  's window. I remember thinking that this can't be our last goodbye, but in a ... parents and me in the US until my sophomore year of high school. I could go ... molding was littered with a lot of "um I don't know how to say this in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving ... obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch directions, for any amount of time, toward horizons whose features I can’t see

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The ... flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these ... like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... diminutive of parka, as in ‘I-need-a-parka’ weather), though due to severe jet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I ... , carefully revising every sentence so that I can communicate it in whatever ... blue. I like the exotic dogs in Back Bay, and most of the time I like

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... . Instead, I traveled between 3 continents and 6 cities--a summer program in ... semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being ... famous writers. In fact, I remember prancing all dreamy-eyed past one of ... find myself speaking in usual MIT lingo. I’m back to my usual regimen of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  any of my own tools and usually just use the ones in EC's basement, I ... roommates are involved in ESP, so of course, I hear a lot about it. "Hey, you ... autopilot while describing in detail how to stain a block of wood, and that I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... ."]WHY.[/annotation] You can see WHYs in every stage of admissions grief: Denial: WHY ... 'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  of in the same way we can do for poems and short stories. Hence the ... from every Hunt would be unreasonable, as I'll talk about in The gift of ... step out of the Hunt for a few hours. And it felt so bad that I put in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  challenge me even more to raise my own expectations of what I can achieve ... community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ... understand that yes I do in fact have ADHD, and no I'm not taking advantage of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and ... 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