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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  played Some Nights by fun. over and over on that first independent work ... MIT bubble. So make an account, meet people, and learn from them. Don ... ). Take academic risks. I wish I’d learned more outside my academic comfort

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  , definitely. MIT students like to both "work hard and play hard", and there ... the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam ... 's important that you understand the range of environments available to MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  floor :)  [caption id="attachment_104151" align="aligncenter" width="1000 ... inside of them for the posts to sit on. [caption id="attachment_104146 ... substantial progress with fewer people. [caption id="attachment_104148" align

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  mean?” I asked. “That they take other factors into account.” “Like what ... : even when I was hard on myself, and when I didn’t know why I’d been ... hold my tongue because of the confines of my job. I’d probably also have

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  .[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and ... plays her favorite song on her guitar or keyboard, she's happy when she ... tests for her. I can't complete the projects or lab work for her. But, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  : Unfortunately, CJ underestimated my completionist tendencies. I’d seen a version ... pretty quickly. I suggested doing this to CJ... [caption id ... on which train came first. [caption id="attachment_59007" align

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  liked the drawing I'd made while waiting for him and seemed really ... pee his pants impressed that I'd climbed so high on the life ladder. I ... college is pricey. Sending test scores to more than 4 colleges cost money

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  " is like remembering a test question, but before that, "remembering ... , Christians. One has navy-blue hair. She plays the guitar and sings with a navy-blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  hassle, huh? [caption id="attachment_47954" align="alignnone" width="1000 ... id="attachment_47953" align="alignnone" width="1000"] behold, my army ... 'll overseason a meal otherwise. i'd start with about 1 teaspoon per spice added

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  triumphs and trials, your dreams and daily lives. Vulnerability is an act of ... of success, in things not working out. Rather, I’d say, there is great

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  the freezer. It made all the cold worth it. [caption id ... ’t matter if other people take six classes or test out of four of the six GIRs ... take a Freshman Essay Evaluation, which is meant to test writing and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  plays), Christopher Boone decides to run away from home, but he never had ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad ... our COVID test, etc. etc.. But I wasn't nervous at all. I knew how

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  representative of Tetazoo and Blacker’s love for each other. [caption id ... two palm-sized test pieces that overlapped to form the whole piece. We ... -hour flight back to California. [caption id="attachment_85354" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id ... food I’ve received! [caption id="attachment_39191" align ... .01 midterm. It did not make the test easier, sadly. d. 18.02 has been food

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning ... my physics professor. I’d googled her name the night before and ... test in first-year algebra but would never use in real life. 8.022 is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  “Going up in flames” “Trial by fire” “Burning out” “Burn it all ... [/annotation] and mostly played a helper role. The first co-authors put forth the idea ... told us how he had failed :’).  [caption id="attachment_69726" align

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  woke up and realized that I’d left everyone hanging, without actually ... Solutions In “Why is There No Water”, I’d highlighted some key qualitative issues I’d discovered from interviewing Muti residents. Children (as

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... standardized test taker. He took the SAT I three times, and even after the third

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are ... dissolved when she met a bunch of people from MIT. Out of all the environments ... , I was burned out, and with good reason: I'd had three years without a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last ... , testing, redesigning, and testing again. Often, something comes together

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018