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  bye (for now)

  

  concepts together, lists of adjectives and nouns all cobbled together ... , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... filled with some of the most passionate people you'll ever have the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the 'skills' section of my resume, so it doesn't look so empty?" Other Freshman ... womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  fact is one of the main factors in about 90% of the things I listed in my ... on my list are just a matter of the small size of the black population ... experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores ... good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  added time in the weeks: 1 hour less of daily commute to and from campus ... semester has become mostly a source of added stress now. It’s not really the ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  me to have "a list of no more than 12 schools" ranked by difficulty to ... student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a LaTeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and ... his final paper for STS.050 (The History of MIT), about the founding of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  college diet of frozen foods that added extra pounds of jiggle to my hips ... of depression and extremely brief mentions of suicide and self ... the corners of my eyes. On the inside, nothing. Just emptiness. But

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... wager that half of the successful and famous people will tell you, “just

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

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class ... a live band, an audience of 3300, and an overall class budget of a half million dollars. Under the tutelage of Professor David Wallace

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  ="Taken as the average class size listed on firehose.guide"]size of the class ... At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  explicitly solicits this information. 17. List in order of preference the ... Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... are obviously hot, but by cooling black metal that still holds a lot of ... when you make the end of a bar thin and pointy. rivets are like double

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  function that would print the sum of all odd numbers in a given list. Some ... climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost. We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  . Afterwards, eight or so of us went for coffee. I wrote down a list of my ... a list of books and essays for M., who reads Joan Didion and all kinds ... that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019