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  Selection Day 3

  

  Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case ... just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  printed to my screen. In a reckless, rash, and intuitive leap-of-faith, I ... gig. If I was chosen to be part of the team, I would get to code ... >?  I just have no idea - there's to much exciting and wonderful in the

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... tune in to lectures and access course materials and stuff. I thought this ... I used to be really passionate about in high school -- which mostly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  , which I'll get to in a moment. Classic CYOA books have a branching ... → Go back to sleep → and dream → Get up and get breakfast → "Oh yeah ... until dinner. The events in the game are pretty faithful to what I did on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... . He dissented to the entire class of 2012 in a very politely worded ... the one that was chosen. In sending that design to the class of 2012, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  the people i've seen in real life i couldn't really get too close to. so ... 's because i felt that i've been left alone, out in the harsh world, to fend ... had me placing my trust in someone, only to have it broken in some way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found ... 'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September ... probably won't directly inform anything that I want to do in the future. Now

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene ... around You'll end up getting kicked outta Benzene town... Take it to the ... to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  our tireless devotion to describing, in unnecessarily sordid detail, the ... optimization in C memory allocation works any more. I just want to go to sleep ... first world problems, and then getting someone who works at Media Lab to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  the best decisions I've made in my life. Also - we're getting a new ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... -cut Pete '01, who lived in New House. According to him, they were nice people ... , but in the end decided to stay at EC. Then came hall rush. We had

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  ’t complete one cycle without getting distracted in between. Well, there was ... change from day-to-day, hour-to-hour in fact – one moment, all you see is a ... ? (Carved by Andrew Hoy '10) Do you see what's in here? To no surprise

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... —eternal gratitude to those who have believed in me and supported me even when life was ... sometimes, but it can also get in the way of the reasons I began writing in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  going to get the highlights (as defined by me) here. If you’d like ... your photo, and not get left behind. The piece is supposed to suggest ... get really cold during the winter and it’s a pain to sit on them

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture ... convince the freshmen that their hall is a good place to live in. We bought ... Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  , and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this ... 't be able to catch up to these kids and as a result, coming in with no ... far behind my classmates and I'll struggle to get good grades (I know

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in ... else does. Not every moment in life needs to be intellectualized, and I have a tendency to overthink everything. The summer I was in Paris, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... common app so they got the notification. She also got to me really far in ... letters, I can try to address them in the comments below. But my main point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  . Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but ... are realizing what it means to be in the center of all this vibrant ... to see the world and take in the fresh air and ride that bike and surf

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  think it's important to let the people in your life know that you ... hussling it took to get out of the house. Everything worked out fine. I ... 've been able to take in the beauty of Boston. Despite all the snow, it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015