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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  . The assignment isn't about making something that would exist in reality ... have a lot of freedom in adapting it, so I started with a literal sheet ... happening in nature like that. This was a fun little exercise, though I hope

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  minutes. Ex: I couldn't find your room because all the floors in Mc ... smaller segments. Ex: -Did you pass the swim test? -I did in fact swim four ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses ... hardships. I felt like I had made a difference in many people's lives. So it ... initiative, they in turn asked their friends and first-year dorms. Then I asked

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , he vanished in an instant. It would be another year until I saw him again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few ... , in perfect condition. I had no choice but to assume this copy of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... friends on hall. The next day I had dinner with some friends in the area

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an ... your problem-solving. In the past three months, I have written more ... results in a technical, concise, and effective manner. This year I've really

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... industrial town in the north, I taught debate to high schoolers ranging in age

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10-250, other students would have gotten there before I could. Last week, I had ... describing the content, I’ll tell you about my classes in terms of the free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... a breath of perspective. Even if I had been rejected, my dog would ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... candidates are considered. These are not hypothetical places. I have worked in ... for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... the question: If I didn’t know myself, what would I think of the person ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... After sending the email I got curious about the URL in the recipient's

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is ... brief background, I made some really close friends in Oregon. Now that ... I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  ’t necessarily a con–I feel like the gym’s vibes are very conducive to locking in ... of specialized machines to choose from, and I like working out in an ... when I work out in more secluded environments (like the Maseeh gym), it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  person in Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. I: The Magician / 3: Materials ... : Michaela P. '24, major in Biology. I don't really have much of an artist ... : Tara S. '24, major in Computation and Cognition. I basically tried to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023