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  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  at places that supposedly offer a diverse and challenging working ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was a remarkably warm day today, with highs of 20 degrees. It was the ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of missing people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Confidential at some point and thought the idea of a bunch of competitive people ... 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
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... at the connotation of "creativity" from a new angle (in a sense, be ... writing about creative ideas, creative ways of looking at things, creative

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  range estimation and entering the second quarter of my time at MIT. I ... media studies (CMS) department sits at the forefront of the field as one ... protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  of warnings can be found at this link, and here are some of MIT VPR ... , is very healthy--at least in college. Actually the extreme end of ... own goals. Good luck! At the end of the day, things will happen, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  traditionally stands precariously at the edge of a cliff. We don't really have ... tweezers, they manipulate glowing molten glass at the end of a blowpipe into ... struggling alone at the moment, others are also in the same boat. X: Wheel of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  problems, but some of these people have become my closest friends at MIT ... because I'm afraid of being bad at it. Which yeah, sounds dumb on paper but ... quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... semester, or at least more socially acceptable in a sense. Instead of having

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... the side of Goodale (the northeast corner of East Campus):  

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... ="51785" /] ...a picture of my friends guest-hosting my final in-person show at WMBR ... need help but the kind of help they can offer is not exactly the help I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  . 41. Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It ... I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  da Vinci write, in golden font at the base of the painting, "Look at ... the meaning of courage"), and lame witty comments at all cost, although ... lecture, shopping at the supermarket...etc.). Note that this kind of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... had at some point considered joining one of the MIT ... fulfilling to serve his organization at this level. He gained a lot of skills

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a ... histories of Mystery Hunt and comic books. We then look at the narrative and ... literary merit, one that art scholars have begun to look at. Lots of museums

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  hyperbole, is it."]smart.[/annotation] # Most of us are not that way at MIT ... hour fixing a simple CAD, I would have been home instead of at lab. [if I ... woke up at 8:30, got out of class around 3, ate lunch on the way to chem

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  tamer: we sat down in front of our computers, stared at a spreadsheet, and ... , at the sort of point-of-no-return of the program, without a single ... talked about our mutual surprise at the large, large number of students who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it ... lives of female faculty here']The history of women at MIT is long and rich ... campus for us: the Margaret Cheney Room. I've studied at a lot of lounges

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  classes, which is boothing. Boothing consists of smiling at people when ... the sound of a wake-up phone call. I checked in at the Bush Room and ... came to play the game at least once, and of those, three people played it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012