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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of ... classroom concepts in a practical environment, you get research experience to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  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 ... , competitors were asked to print "2019" without using any digits in their code

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  find things they have in common, to bond over the places they went and ... to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... outlets, because in addition to being a positive human-interest piece it ... As I find myself again, railing against something published in the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... ’s worth a read.) I’ve started three other aborted blog posts trying to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry ... 't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... diminutive of parka, as in ‘I-need-a-parka’ weather), though due to severe jet ... glanced at the stone passageway in front of me, my bicycle locked to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while ... tables and desks in the lobby of the Nano building were a great place to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having ... isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... chance to freak out and embarrass myself in front of lots of other people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  , outstanding intellectual aptitude, a desire to use your knowledge in the world ... was a middle-school cross country and road runner, I used to get ... have to be creative. There are a lot of ways to show your creativity in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all ... lead to a lot more than an admissions decision. If you get in on ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  need to wear yourself out. There were a few common refrains in my ... joined my other classmates in stepping up to that challenge. It was just a ... seven weeks in, it's a bit more like learning how to swim. You can cling

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... .  In those situations, a new interpretation, spawned either by creative

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... bus trip to a random liberal arts college somewhere in the Northeast ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... in no way saying that everyone needs to join a sorority, but I am ... [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... going to use any of those in your engineering courses. These courses

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006