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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  Israel, so she served in the army for a couple of years before coming here ... generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  hallway. Whether it’s two people who spaced themselves out in the worst ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... arrives, only for it to go out of service Happened to me too many times

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to ... decisions again.  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class ... ; < <  You can log in using the same username and password

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  CURIOUS IN A BLOG POST? game) I will write up an explanation below. In the ... history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in Sudan, etc. While reading an article, I happened to sit up straight, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  appropriately for the holiday. A 15 minute delay in the meeting time allowed for ... so you can look more menacing. Bring an apple in case you decide to ... I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... past 6. In the first portion, I spent some time creating my personal algorithm for getting into MIT. Hopefully these general guidelines can help

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  too abstract, let me give you an idea of what that can do. For instance ... named. Some people call it hell week, but I've found that even in the ... bigger!): Not pictured: The wake for my recently-lost composure Couple

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  's time I come clean. I had never been on an MIT campus tour. Yes, you heard ... makes sense when you think about it. I arrived on campus for freshman orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  promised, celebrated his admission in December by running around the yard ... creating charcoal out of waste material to prevent deforestation in the third ... place in Geneva with the particle accelerator that might create a black

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -scalding hours in preparation for an all-bacon dinner for 40 people, packed two ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry, preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  about. To fix. To find inspiration in. Identity is Worth Fighting For ... to be true. Some truths are easy. For example, the addition of peanut ... be best to eat Oreos upon waking up for class. But if you slather

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  family had been completely normal. I felt immense guilt for not checking in ... soon as I stepped in the room where she would be put down, I felt an ... image of her in my brain. we laid her on her side, and if it weren't for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... rare for me since I am an EXTREMELY shy person. He also pushed me to be ... contact me for any info you want about queer life at MIT. The address is in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  . Once in 66, you can turn to view an interesting room full of old ... wanderer stripped a small area of paint, giving just enough of an opening for ... the ceiling in this neglected room, but it looked interesting, so I took

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a ... than 5”) would ultimately result in an incorrectly sorted list. Hence, if

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like open stores and the outdoors; this is mostly true for adults as well, except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  friend who had also fled campus for SD in March,[/annotation]so we shared ... time to take in everything around me. For the most part, campus looked ... courtyard. Home. I’ve been in quarantine ever since, waiting for the end of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  leaves (for some reason, the trees on campus are sad and brown, while the ... ="105573" /] But those are all the small, trifling acts of an amateur fall enthusiast. The true spirit of college fall can only be captured in something far

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  full-time job for next year. Ahhhhh the stress!!!!!! To end this post in ... an eight minute bike ride north of MIT. Well, a little longer than that ... the bills, and I wasn't happy anymore. I (Still) Have An Amazing Cat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  . Written somewhere in there is an admission that maybe good people don ... readings was Sartre’s Existentialism is Humanism: “But in reality and for the ... ’s going to force me to choose.  There are a couple lines in an admissions

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022