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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an incredibly cool feature that you may find out about in several months, only to ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  prone to ants. 9:43 AM: Finding tupperware to put sugar in. 9:45 AM: Wonder vaguely why anyone would be awake now, especially to put sugar in ... will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  write about a robot opera in Monaco, got to hang out with one of my ... consider to be my life role models. Both of them have seen me grow in a lot ... them both in my life. (This is a nice moment but I'm going to ruin it by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... pull in extra furniture to ensure everyone has a seat at the table. Some ... use moments of confusion or disagreement to grow together. It’s a very

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  puzzle involved using tarot cards to unscramble a message dispersed between ... it would take to get from a T stop in Boston back to Next House. Out of ... maps in a specific order to give us clues. He did this so many times

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  Boston from the inside of a train car, suitcase in hand as I returned to ... University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus ... elsewhere in non-MIT affiliated housing. There's a lot of pros and cons to ... . I haven't used these resources to find housing to be fair, but you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a ... in a minute. Good news- we've made it to the Turning Point of the ... ’d never used Salesforce before in my life. So what? They have a “Help

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... ’s just something about finding the rhythm in a song, and absolutely ... weekend in Vermont is the culmination of that—a chance to hang out with my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the ... getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be sixteen when I discovered a very large, very live spider challenging me to a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  things I used to find joy in: running, taking photos, cooking, wandering ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... 3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... Find Them. We had met to discuss my interest in astronomy, and our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP ... before I knew I was going to come to MIT. He is Godly At Physics In A Way I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  entered Kindergarten with. There isn’t a lot to do in a small town, so ... decide to uproot and find yourself making small talk over tapas at a table ... inside me.  One night last year, I went to see a concert in Fenway with

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  dressed in robes that resemble Roman attire to give a scholarly look, and ... study mechanical engineering in MIT, like the willpower required to take a ... . Often times, we find ourselves holed up in labs or libraries, trying to

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

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I ... active in little ways they find appropriate, like inviting people over to ... -captain and parents, got a few thousand dollars in funding to start our school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... had qualified to the AIME. I was pretty excited, and after a while, in a ... could only find in few other places. I merely had a general sense of what

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... ,[/annotation] so I decided to perform anyway.  The thermocline in a lake or ... , in order to submit a paper, I had to start writing one. But my PI

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021