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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to ... Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  differential equations before my pride let me go to R. for help. And sure enough, he took my textbook for a night to review the material (he couldn ... really developed a good set of tools for what to do when those failed. This

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  environment and it has been immensely beneficial for me to understand the ‘other ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  the future. Preparing for the struggles that are to come with any ... of the person I always wanted to be. At MIT, hundreds of miles from my ... , friends, and all the rest to ever find a moment for yourself. But you need

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  ’s response to Austin. Sofia Campos: “Reaching for our dreams of our ... to brainstorm ideas for how to reach that kind of transformation and ... are a lot more people who want to reach for that vision with me, because

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

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  affinity for some subject early on that they also had access to, and could ... decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did

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

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  "]Beast.[/annotation] I had never made it communally before, only for my personal meal prep ... and decided to make pakaprow for the MANY people that ate our daily ... , but I had never had to accommodate for so many different food

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  ’ll learn how to, I dunno, become a person. And it’s like religion, it’s like ... that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... decide you want to live there, can you pick that dorm for the second ... -- spots need to be freed up in order for people to move in. 2. Charlotte

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... ?" Seriously; who's going to answer 'yes' to that question? I personally am

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Gregor for CPW. The walk to campus was miserable: cold air and colder rain and ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  weird, for me to ask this. From the outside, I guess, I could look like a ... strangers to blog posts for the whole world to see. And yet! And yet, when I ... 't be seeing for months, if not years, and not knowing where to start

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... donations from alums allowed us to all get robes for free. I played as Neville ... MacGuffins, for lack of a better name. Another group was trying to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you could at MIT, to the dumbest class there was for the most ... except for the number keys, which only let me use 5 and 6. So I had to do ... Music class to prepare for retaking .301 next fall. I was extremely

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... else we still need to do before everyone leaves: pick our songs for next ... the next."]early[/annotation]to class, for the first time in possibly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... political science, or whatever, but for purposes of this post let's assume

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... understand that people want answers and explanations, but… alas. Trying to define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe.) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  floorpi for a semester, before moving to Epsilon Theta, an [annotation note ... ="aligncenter" width="1504"] I intend to set the record for "most complicated graph in an ... lived in this room for a semester before moving to ET."]Epsilon Theta

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022