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• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  drawing me back to a cycle of self-blame, taking root in my head and placing ... a pass/no record grading system across the board. I have to admit that ... most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , and I built a bookshelf with Cory to hold our disassembled Legos. After ... heart, even if it wasn't a good idea, and it's hard to transition to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , scrubbed diligently, transferred to the rinse bucket, then pegged to a ... how to use a washer and a dryer, and some tiny part of me was doubtful ... .m., I retired to the basement of Walker Memorial, where a bunch of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

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

  

  't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some ... middle of a semester can be hard, sometimes, due to scheduling and school ... it, and I wish I'd gotten a chance to do this earlier. Costuming and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to ... the river multiple times a month with the singular intention to go to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  bathroom, the film centers around the thing that happened to a freshman named ... : "IT'S A JOKE." 9:21 PM: Realize nobody actually knows what happened to ... dancing was a productive, well-deserved study break. Back to problem set

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... example to all and lived a beautiful, full life. These are some snippets from my last conversation with him, which I was so lucky to film about a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I'm a blogger, and have gotten to know a little of the administrative side ... community. I look forward to being a sort of big sister to my student groups

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... apply to a school like MIT. As Petey wonderfully notes in his infamous ... you glance through this list, feel free to make a note of tools and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... early afternoon to see the sights. There are a few attractions to the town

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word—a ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... ;Fill out the forms to acquire a visa and mail my passport to the Swiss

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don ... a good day. Most of their parents are middle to upper class, working

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... of ingredients turns into a mountain of cookies[/caption] To make a ... chocolate chips, in addition to a ton of baking powder, baking soda, salt

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... out a way to succeed. At that point I had to stop yelling at him and ... piece of paper, society saw me as somehow qualified to be a grown up and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  teammates to make a presentation, look-alike model, and two working models ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert ... milestone was to have a product sheet, pricing, electronics diagram, and CAD

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023