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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  sadness in the world ok my fourth crush is in the works so i need to get ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... HaikuBot. HaikuBot counts the syllables in each message sent to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  start getting up in arms about not getting to stay at MIT, keep in mind ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... admissions is figuring out WHY you want to put yourself through grad school in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  submit a pull request to get something changed. In theory, if there's an ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer ... whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  reasons similar to M.B. ‘17’s ice cream: if I got in, she'd get hugs. If I ... were convinced i wouldn't get in and forcibly tried to not make a big ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how ... 's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  year for me. I was getting in to new things, branching out in school, and ... As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  to two hundred responses in close to three days. So I say this to you ... you. If you do that, you're guaranteed to discover the blessing in ... to have applied in the first place. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don ... props are fun. I was reluctant to get robes at first, but some generous

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  broken out to reveal the night sky. The ceiling has three ceiling lights ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... a vacation to the moon in a homemade rocket in A Grand Day Out with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... .” Behind the caution tape two people are having a heart-to-heart in the dip ... convert’s hair. I get to ride the Big Flipper at Next House and sharpie my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

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

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... closest to the clean water). But in addressing other issues, we hope access ... region, we didn’t need to go very deep. We simply needed to get away from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was ... HTML file attached to it. An html file that, when opened in a browser ... to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  "The Smiths." No one needs to see that in the background of my Zoom call. I am on the couch in the living room right next to the wi-fi router ... little hazard sign pops up next to the four wi-fi bars in the bottom

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to ... surprised to see people in college so excited to try my Thai cooking, let

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program ... major in, what student groups and other communities to get involved in ... listing (a lovely modern apartment in Reykjavik) to get a better sense for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an incredibly cool feature that you may find out about in several months, only to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... Alexandre Dumas -- are on my bookshelf in Cambridge, daring me to take them ... thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  made me admissible to MIT — I started getting things wrong in the ... try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... sufficient to get me through secondary school and my undergraduate education

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016