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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  gets in the way of your work or school, you have to deal with it and ... project in Ethiopia. When back on campus, I continued to be involved in many ... to my room and feel like there was a sinkhole in my stomach. It was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• 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 ... *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  content), I finally get around to completing it. With everything in place in ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  up the stairs to get a higher seat since sitting in the front scares me ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... have previously received an A/A+ in a class might be asked to be a grader ... gets leaked and to my knowledge nothing dangerous is tested on volunteers

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... pioneer in developing new techniques to introduce foreign DNA to yeast. His ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  says. "It's not the same. If you are going to get a job in the United ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  In order to increase our chances of getting a good referral, we ... .279, and hopefully getting in touch with more 15-1's to talk to them about ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  four hours in. But now we get to tackle the real beast—the Green Line ... ’s nice to have. In any case, it takes half an hour to get from Riverside to ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  , I didn’t want to get my hopes up about getting in. In hindsight, I ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  in the world once you get to know us." Well, it's true. Or at least ... by who applies and who decides to enroll. In other words, self ... kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise ... super fun! I wanted to bring them to next house in general and so this

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  ’s [annotation note=" line sisters or brothers refer to the people in the same new ... ’s easy to get stuck in the MIT bubble because everything is on campus, but ... get to know members on a personal level. In the end, the people who know

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... start a new chapter in my life, and to hopefully become a person that I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014