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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so ... to the person staffing it, and say what we wanted. It was nice getting ... , see you again tomorrow! It felt so good to get to interact with someone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live ... floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1 ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... instinct? An MIT psyche? or a sign I need to get more of a life? HAHA.] ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  didn't expect to get fifty classes, let alone a hundred and twenty! But ... staging, and getting ready to launch things on the day-of. The community ... students and teachers to inform them about the situation, and it gets sent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being ... don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family ... factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... 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

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and ... sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... scrambling to get money transferred from my savings account to checking ... lovely; the crowds were immense. The lines were too long to get to the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been ... failures every day and that's ok. It takes a lot of trying to get through

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... sadness in the world ok my fourth crush is in the works so i need to get ... syllables so your goal is to get as many haikus as far as you can count Can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  hanging a bicycle using the fridge as a prop to get it up in the air." They ... the EC table saw to get the right shape of pieces to fill that room ... Campus is going to get renovated soon, and gods know how the floor plan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  [dare I say more competent] people working for him while he gets to enjoy ... , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook, to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and those that get more people to enroll. For example, the Admissions Office ... don't get it."]"Bring more women to MIT".[/annotation] The author muses

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  , unable to get help. A worsening stomachache can lead to appendicitis that ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my ... people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018