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  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... evidence to prove anything substantial about myself. my crisis is a spiritual ... . the challenge is doing so in a way that isn’t confining or prescriptive

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  was not recorded and is not relevant. The experiment was conducted in a ... . That got me thinking. MIT students are in general used to a history of ... which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  Part 2/2 documenting my Italy IAP trip :) Enjoy! Day 15: A magical day in Bologna, especially after chancing upon a fellow group of ... girl studying abroad in the quaint city. They included a window into a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  River, in my opinion, is a creek at best, but to each their own ... leg of the journey with Selena L., a '24 living in Cambridge (who is ... Asia, as well as a species of tree that is extinct in the wild

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  playlists are just 3 playlists in a trenchcoat, and that probably bumped up ... year: The Sound City. This is a town that your listening habits best ... be in the top .001% for a big artist like Taylor Swift, and apparently

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons ... that: (1) your essay is written in a consistent tense (“I sat on a cow ... ’t write about your time in prison.” I heard this in a video once. There are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  't like a gold rush, gold rush I don't like anticipatin' my face in a red ... 24 hours ago, Taylor Swift came out with a new album and everyone ... right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in ... writing about the show. World of Wires is such an intriguing show. I did a ... workshop of the show in less than 2 weeks with a cast of six people; in other

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  's arrival in Boston. Christina, the girlfriend of a Fifth East resident, is a ... , along the Charles River in a place called Cambridge, a bright-eyed, eighteen-year-old baby boy was born. In his future lies a childhood, with all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  with my editing, probably, since a lot of it had taken place in the early ... . EVER. After the first paper, everyone in the class found a speaker of a ... , who is from Nepal. A shout-out to Pramod '14, who has now spent hours

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office. So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is ... . Conveniently enough, my UROP is in Building E25, almost right next to Senior Haus

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized ... applied if they got in. That's a very tricky and sensitive position to ... experience CollegeConfidential is more a source of stress and nervousness and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  focus in again on a single major. One of MIT's great qualities is the ... you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to ... point. Anyway, that's how I decided on pursuing both 7A and CMS. 7A is a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  most often about AFROTC is "but what do you do every week?" Cadets in Det ... Force officer. As a freshman, I'm in AS.100, and right now we're learning ... to read a 23-page document teaching us more skills), it was time to

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  than the usual complement in any given limb. [this is a villain, by the ... trying to run after spending three and a half months in one room. Then ... hands can go only so many hours in a given week -- but also I wanted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  your messages! I will reply in detail soon. Thanks!) This has been a ... a daily basis. ;-) Back at East Campus, Greg basks in the "ambient ... lurking behind a pillar. Here's Greg again -- he sauntered in to enjoy the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  answer is, of course, both. Unfortunately, regular labs are infeasible in a ... the first Festival here. This post is the third of a series of three ... “Is Engineering Education Obsolete?” One and a half years ago, Anette

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  that this is the case for many frosh, in many different colleges. It’s a ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you ... with a different counselor, until someone put me in physics C. And then I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to ... smiled a lot, which is neither what you do in Denmark nor what you do in a ... Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... suppose what I’m trying to say is that, in the past two and a half years of ... . In retrospect, such a statement is obviously silly. The reason that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021