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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to be able to take pretty much any class, in any department, at any ... like working too hard in the class, you can take it on pass/no record or ... out to get you. They’re so kind, in fact, that they give you an entire

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to ... summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... were strained to see what was about to happen. In a few moments the ... appear on the Great Dome in 1994, or when the Howe & Ser moving company

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be ... starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  weekend to be over. Back in 2011, my host’s neighbor was an aerospace engineering major. Given my interest in the major I was curious to hear about ... 's possible and common to be so deep in piles of work that you will NOT be able

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015