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• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  their life, i would suggest that they do X less often”. in other words ... choice that i think is obviously wrong?” in other words, most of my ... . i don’t think recruiters are actually emotionally invested in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  graduation last night, mostly because I believe strongly in keeping up a tough ... . I was secretly hoping that he'd slip in a line at the end like "And in ... would be complete without pictures? Graduation was held, as always, in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... something truly serendipitous. Back in July, when I created the 2010 Blogger ... stuck in Beijing. "I've gotta beat them somehow," I said, in an impromptu

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  of view. Therefore, I would be open to blogs from all of you! Send me ... QUOTE: "Coming from Stanford [before MIT's CPW], I actually bought a Stanford pen because I really liked the campus but staying here over CPW I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  happen this morning. I woke up dead tired in the house we're renting here ... would make me stop twitching and biting my lip. It didn't quite, but I ... in right-side-up, so I just left it. Whatever. Here's a toast to all

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  'Reilly animals would make a great component to a Mystery Hunt puzzle. I brought ... awe of Josh's ability to slip in the clue months beforehand. I feel bad ... important (such as the Mystery Hunt). Current music: Alice In Chains, "I Stay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as ... sucks when instead I could've be basking in sun taking naps on the quad in ... , with the tools I need to take on anything. Would I have felt the same

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  there was this time three weeks ago, when i was still living in baker ... front of the house. i think that was the first time in five months that i ... felt my feet in contact with my slippers, i felt anchored, i felt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  you are an athlete and would like to participate in one of MIT's 41 ... letter of recommendation. This in general would not need to be on an MIT ... I've been getting a lot of questions about supplemental material

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  where I suspect that in several years I would be sad if I hadn't been ... Yeah, I've been a slacker about writing this up. So in my last entry ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  expressed in an open letter to the Chancellor, which I suggest you read for a ... I phrased this in a way that is obviously sarcastic, since I feel like this not far from what they actually would have you think). In

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and ... interesting to me as a (then) prospective History double major. I came in ... thoroughly enjoyed it. I appreciate the well-aged humor in letters staff sent

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  I joined GEL because I want to be able to implement my ideas in the world. And people are half that equation. Last Friday, I led my wonderful ... rarity in the office, we could tell that this team would NOT mesh well with

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... then, in that very moment, that I had zero clue as to what to expect. I  had never listened to the Hamilton soundtrack in its entirety. I knew as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  Nov 3: I ended up in an ambulance, then at Cambridge Hospital, then ... weird. 4. Tuesday Nov 6: I voted in the presidential election for the ... . Turned 20 at 7am. Half an hour after turning 20, I was in an office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  I’ve explored in the GEL Program, which I thought was pretty exciting ... this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school ... real leadership positions in high school.” When I asked Leo about his

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton Center, where I work most mornings. As usual, I looked up in Lobby 7, more ... bad idea. But my friend, you would be very wrong. Although I ended up

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  , considering that this show is always in danger of cancellation, I bet it ... tests like at MIT?" How did I know, right? I'm just so in tune with what ... 's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  actually did. Here's how: First, I wrote a crude but effective scraper in ... line to a text file. Then, I cobbled together a tweet generator in Ruby ... learn. In making @mitblogs_ebooks, I learned a lot, and sometimes the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I'm enjoying committee this year even more than I have in past years. Maybe that's just

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007