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  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... friends about how my school wasn't going to stick me with a random roommate ... , which has its own set of advisers entirely.. the different combinations

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  -Pakistan conflict and how it continues to affect even South Asians in the United States, and how it related to the promotion of unity and understanding on ... ... but it's snowing here, and it is beautiful. I'm overlooking this winter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  .) Friday seems so long ago that I barely remember it at all. I know for a ... told me about it and warned me about the long wait time. That's right- an ... , and they're awesomely helpful. (Yes, awesomely is a word. At least, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  %, it does not mean that the chances of a given applicant who scores ... 't. That's how our admissions data work. It shows you where the decision wasn ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  's distracting me from 2.004 studying). Here's how it started, with an e-mail to ... flame wars and being used correctly, it's also a great way to let somebody ... 'm not just saying this to say it, I'm saying it because I just had a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  , it doesn't feel like a sterile box that does nothing to mitigate my ... enhance who we are. How do we have time to paint murals? After a grueling day of psets, papers, and reading, how can we not take some time away

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  hundreds of EC and non-EC residents, alumni, and associates. It's a public ... , which falls into the "thoroughly random conversation" category. It ... circumference. On which Amittai '01 helpfully elaborated, with... yeah! it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired, and I’d had a really long day, but with every step I took, I felt my ... up entirely—so I ignored it as much as I could. Which was hard, because

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  , how do people actually make decisions? How does health economics work ... this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I ... 't mentioned here before is my feeling that it is super under-appreciated by

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  dream, right? I found adorable how it moved its little nose, had these ... childish behavior. How clueless was I? [caption id="attachment_86641" align ... not disappoint. Its hues of pink and orange merged majestically to yield

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  ="you might be asking how that's different from saying it's a ramen place that ... also fatty and so many flavors how do i describe this flavor profile it ... another sip. it's pretty okay, but it's too oily and too salty. the heat is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  version does not make you cooler, it just means you might have a harder time ... .02 or 8.022 If you don't like physics/forgot it all and don't know how in ... Calculus BC: Take 18.02 If you don't like math/forgot it all/don't know how

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  . That was crazy. Still don’t know how I did it. I highly recommend these ... learning how to take a test with our actual school’s exams. This time, it’s ... It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  , but it does have one thing going for it. You walk down the street in NYC ... , which is always sad. So here it is, my attempt at some sort of summary of my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  (it's kinda funny how this was like the antithesis of summer '04, when I ... proposals and applications. Aye, it's that time of the year again. If ... Stanford now). I did my first math "research" at Mathcamp. It was pretty

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  've started to think about how my relationship to it has changed. Guys, I ... 's decades-long hunt for a serial killer whom he saved as a child. It has tons ... IT. OR READ IT, THAT WORKS TOO Hunter X Hunter A decently long show

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  "Howdy, how can I help?" I meekly smile at the word usage, and answer his ... place: Austin, Texas. Texas is not what I had expected it to be. The ... . Felt made for me. Felt right. It made me look forward to a hot girl

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... time, I didn't want it to be true – who wants to spend a whole year without finding their new college bestie? – but it was 100% true. Freshman

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  started measuring time in units of how long it took me to knit a headband ... around me. If someone asks me how I’ve made it through this pandemic so far ... the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that ... with sketchy-looking people presents obvious risks, but it can also lead ... in the desert, and it was really difficult to tell beforehand whether

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022