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  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  't have to be deep or profound or whatever. Vibes are important. It's 100% acceptable to choose based on whether people recognize your Homestuck jacket ... bins painted blue, or glow-in-the-dark frisbees. Then maybe April 13 will

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  the highest building in Cambridge! Or, more accurately, they do that at ... enough chocolate in general to sink a small ship, midnight did indeed roll ... guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  ) and loved it immediately. In Semantle, you are trying to figure out some ... in meaning to the secret word. Higher scores are closer in meaning, and ... wrote for mystery hunt in 2012!']David Turner,[/annotation] links to a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is ... -yoku (taking in the forest atmosphere or forest bathing): evidence from field ... of life in three parts: to be with each other. To work towards a better

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... oldest mural in East Campus, and according to legend, it was originally ... story after, but here’s the legend of how murals in EC came to be, as told

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... important. as in, researchers have been unable to consistently replicate ... your virtual body belongs to a different race or gender than your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  usable; I was able to reliably holster or unholster my phone one-handed in ... The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  or imagined slights, typically related to their unorthodox studies." Ok ... , the answer is inevitably “In lab.” My class schedule serves to justify ... we get to meet leaders in Clinical Research in the Boston area, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... collaborate. Now, at the new Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., he's trying to ... of the major VCs in the country," she says. "One guy said to me, 'That

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  Period? Nope. Believe it or not, I used IAP to go on a three-week vacation ... details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map: After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that ... in high school, the first month usually marks the second or third unit ... to do a pset WITH people me: i like STEM and i want to get involved in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to ... 'm not running from activity to class to activity anymore—i'm just in my ... ; i was too used to working alone in high school and felt that i wouldn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  think that website belonged to one of most elite schools in the country ... , Facebook was once an exclusively college networking site. A way to keep in ... , then merged the two, opened it up to anyone in the US, then the world

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  —are some of the moments in which I’ve felt most connected to others. Where ... in one place to experience something together: art. TANGENT I’m not a ... main hub. There’s almost always a show in town, thanks in part to Boston

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the ... season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the ... didn't design its interview to quiz you and reveal the shortcomings in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... many structural barriers in place that cause college students to drop out ... or take notes on visitors and add them to application files; but OTHER

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... 11/6 from 4-5pm EST! Tune in to get your burning questions answered or ... having that exhilarating freedom in college to figure out who I am and what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  demand or whatever.  In that same vein, if total eclipses occurred daily ... Albans City in Vermont but, early on the way we then decided to go to ... in the town. Newport is a lovely town and it was definitely not made to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  a box (poor tweets). You might not be able to see them in all browsers ... two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so you can only see it if you want to and you highlight the text:  

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012