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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  simply just don't happen. Or, they end up wanting to do other things in ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  or so has probably had to have class in it at some point. This is ...   Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We ... (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ” or “tenet”). In response to “how’s it going”, I sometimes respond with ... the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  players chose to place a large portion of their points in one or two ... . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... in either 14.30 or 14.05, and further in 14.19 our junior fall.  There

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... , either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  -sleep around 1am, I set every alarm in my room to an arbitrary time between 2 ... fan of it because it's not remotely sweet or minty enough to earn the ... caffeine was in the tea, but I did not feel tired at all. If I wanted to go

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  . Often times, we find ourselves holed up in labs or libraries, trying to ... use generative AI or whatever. Even more strongly, I wanted each card to ... dressed in robes that resemble Roman attire to give a scholarly look, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... self-confidence in my ability to get into such a well-known and ... applied to when I did well in science competitions to tell them that I was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... chocolate chips, in addition to a ton of baking powder, baking soda, salt ... , in this case, a person) takes to process a given input (such as

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  stories or letters to applicants (though it is always great to practice a ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... poems you write in middle to high school years when you have feelings. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The ... opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... there. You wake up to your alarm in bed and go to your first class. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... singing defiantly in the group session before cutting to clips from the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  to lose yourself in. oh, you're losing sight, you're losing touch all these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to ... each other. I finally discovered my passion in life, and now I get to put ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  not believe in heaven or hell or any sort of afterlife, but I’d like to ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... I ran out of time to read at all, let alone in Japanese. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  is in the first place—is it the continuity of dorm culture, or is it to ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start ... to us if CPW is canceled or if it is just the CPW events with too many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  to go to Norway, depicted in one of the photos above; in the photo, I ... thirty days in Heathrow and write a book about it (or shoot a documentary ... cosmopolitan cities in the world. My five-kilometre commute to work takes a mere

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010