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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  remembers the three-factor authorisation procedure she had to follow to get ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... final exam. It's written by me, it only has one question, and I get to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ” to pitch their ideas. As ideas get cut and refined, so too do the ... . Things get heated.  Voices are raised.  We decide to adjourn the ... ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  multiplier gets even higher, which only increases the incentive to defect. EG ... balance between people trying to deceive each other and people trying to get ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  , Arts, and Social Sciences) Requirement the previous year. Getting to ... . Yet another way to get involved in governance at MIT is through Dorm ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  which to stand, and slowly, surely get stronger with the help of my ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... 've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle ... Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  development projects. Most of all, he told us never to get discouraged or give ... . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a ... for four hours to get to my father’s village in the countryside, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For many years, many Cambridge residents had limited access to healthy, fresh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  physics calculations. Lots of teamwork and designing. Also get to go on ... . Not only did I get hands-on experiences as a first year, I got to ... helped me prove to myself that I was learning and getting smarter at MIT

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at the time, but I knew that I wanted to find down-to-earth, genuine people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... have received on Sunday. We all say that it will get better, that you will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  "]basics of cooking,[/annotation] but it's very easy to get caught up in the ... way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  , trying to get a clear picture of what I wanted career-wise. I was involved ... , and MIT would be hard to get into (duh). But at some point, I decided to ... the Broad suggested that I apply to MIT for transfer to get more

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible ... : follow your heart, as cheesy as it sounds. When it comes to some of your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012