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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  , losing yourself in your schedule; I think this is what a lot of workaholics ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two in the morning ... Philippines, or that I live(d) in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  with in class: ^a Form1+ we used in 2.008.  Yay MIT alum companies! (9) Because the Esplanade is only a short walk from campus: and ... this post were taken with a compact camera that I carry in my pocket.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  firestorm, but a similar event called firehose that happens in cpw, which is ... enough time to prepare. A walk-in activity is a different kind of class ... ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  chocolate mousse is covered in a chocolate glaze, topped with a vanilla tuile ... roll is covered in a mirror glaze and topped with a cherry and some ... interpretations. Is a poem more or less successful if only the author’s intended

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... excitement, Prof. Grimson is a wonderful guy. He's incredibly fair and ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions ... 'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We ... , embodied, manifest in some material form) I think is just as interesting, at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to ... waitlists. And so that path is now open for me to walk down — a path that, in

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  ever a Bad Idea. Bad Ideas is a weekend festival thrown by East Campus ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... thousand cookies, that's a lot of cookies. I don't think you realize. That is

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... highlighted for me is that I just haven’t come across a lot of great resources ... below. There is a good chance that everyone else will appreciate your

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... but about the person. Sure MIT's is a shortcut that opens doors, but if

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  'd never built a robot. I had never hung out with Ben Jones in real life or ... . This time, my iPod is charged and my boarding pass is secured in my ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  might be thinking: biking in a city? Why is this deeply psychotic and ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... in the greater Boston area by far - and picked up a nice, simple

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010