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  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... an affection that startles me). I guess I should backtrack a little ... 9-to-5 that I couldn’t quite put a finger on until my first day

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  semester, and the first one I ever participated in. A lot of time I spent ... grabbing a blue book being handed out. I didn’t do as well as I thought I ... wooden seats, like the kind you’d find in a chapel. I felt like I was going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  , everybody in the audience is making a stabbing motion during this song; I ... your own risk. And, believe me, this is gonna be a long one. Still, I ... , I did this. This is what I do for you people. Now there's this girl

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  , CMS.100 has essays that I really loved to write. In a nutshell, our ... that, I am eternally grateful :D.  185 notes in notability In high school, I wasn't exactly a note-taking person. In fact, a teacher once

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  building is, and he told me that it was a big thing in CMU, which explained all the posters for plays I saw earlier that day. Theater is a thing ... Days in lives that aren't mine and A Boring Friday. This is one of those

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  make sure that you have a place to enroll next year other than MIT in ... . Schools understand that this scenario is a part of the process, and it is ... can I do to help my chances? The best thing you can do is simply to stay

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  remembered that we can. All futures have a past; indeed, one reason we do ... thing you do when you study history is to realize that while the past ... future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  . I noticed that my first two weeks in Albuquerque - when everything was ... work alone. I walked two and a half miles in the dry Albuquerque heat ... Frisbee game. I was in a wheelchair for a day. Then on crutches. I learned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since ... actually surprisingly easy and a fun thing to do. My junior year, I took a ... opportunity to take a graduate-level course in education (I had many graduate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  , but these aren't things that are automatic. If I grew up in a different ... there. The thing about ritual is that, in some level, I need it in my ... , one that can't be reduced to just "let's do things in-person again!" I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  did a pretty good production of As You Like It, but I must confess that I had a hard time following the plot. This time, the company was doing ... finally see a live version. Now, I learned from Professor Donaldson that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  -of-the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... that would have wifi. I walked there, checked online with a few other

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  friendships there that’ll last a lifetime. I was active in my community on and ... saying “This is what I’m gonna do when I go to MIT!” Frankly, a lot of the ... I remembered that I submitted my application in January. Last spring I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised ... that I was able to carve out a path for myself that I feel very happy about, and if I could go back and do it all over again, I'm not sure that

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  internship falls in my happiness space. It is easy, now that I have the luxury ... Minecraft bot could do, I decided to focus on food recipes. Ideally, a human ... user asks, "I want to make a cake." that should translate into "recipe

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  few parking lots around. I hear that driving in the city is no easy feat ... the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in ... 't quite reach. The only inconvenience is that here in Boston, like most

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  a helmet. I will admit with shame that I don’t currently have a helmet ... is even legal in Massachusetts, less than a block from some cops who ... riding a bike without a helmet is only illegal in Massachusetts if you are

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  . Which means! That 4.111 is the first studio in a sequence of studios I ... happy that this class is not graded on a curve, which means what I give is ... .013 – Introductory Biology (a GIR class) I’m ALWAYS excited to take biology, but that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  scenario in which I’m hanging off the edge of a cliff, tall enough that I ... dependency on cars for getting around. Now that I’m in a city that’s as ... /or watching people play Minecraft is a hyperfixation that can consume my

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  understand that is the barrier here. I've been questioning a lot why computer ... . And then I scold myself in my mind because that mindset is toxic and ... Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021