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  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  initially refused to give me the boarding pass, saying I was too late. I ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other ... it took to make these games come to life! a history WZ: Paolo was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  initial goals). I'm going to try and end strong and broaden the scope of ... /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  needed to talk to somebody. After the initial shock reaction, the only ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Thanks to Petey, whose ideas I am stealing to write this post. Thanks to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I ... ). Briana B. ‘17 (right) and I on the steps to Lobby 10 The current

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  're meeting with one of the dorm Heads of House to discuss a new initiative that ... the new initiative! We have a really good discussion, but I have to duck ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... .   So let's discuss admissions data. First, I'd like to say that I ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... to “leave the room” so the committee members could deliberate. At 11

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  [/annotation] and [annotation note='an initiative for first-year students to be ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  student group called Next Queer. One of their initiatives was to buy pride ... was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  worsening stomachache is the initial sign for appendicitis, which needs to be ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  in history. From colonial American traditions, to how food can initiate ... Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as well as the next steps, since I'm sure it's going to only transform and mutate more and more as the months go by. The journey to figure out what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020