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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  better on? LOSS OF POTENTIAL. DISAPPOINTMENT. BAGGAGE. For the past three ... need to take better care of myself before I run around thinking I ... called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  use moments of confusion or disagreement to grow together. It’s a very ... 2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we

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

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  own, kindness is the first thing I will try to teach them. Passing on ... was lit in tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier on the night of ... to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  ? Granted, it could mean that there is literally nothing acting on you to go ... in light of changing fortunes or events. Flow is knowing what it takes ... wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  TeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to ... physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... due to their neutralizing nature I felt no better or worse about my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise ... time that I spend at MIT, which will add up to 80 hours per week of real ... , I had four problem sets per week, three of which were due on Friday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  ) or a tie-back to your beginning narrative (the second part of the story ... sentence and ask yourself, "what is the connection of this sentence to the ... of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  ’ Theorem, which I think, based on my 5.59 years of experience, is the very ... , the probability of A given that B has happened or is true is equal to ... , using the most comprehensive, unbiased data available to me (which is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... maintenance on the text. My agenda created plenty of opportunities for me to ... separating points which would otherwise be stacked on top of each other. Was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS ... entire list of faculty members added to the display is included at the end ... all of SHASS together. -the hackers The hack is to be preserved in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look ... max of $2400 a semester (Fall/Spring) or $7680 for summer More info on ... is agreed upon at the beginning of the term. Unlike an intense UROP or

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... due to excitement or awkwardness. When I’m really mad, however, I swear ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not ... 't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... never a question of whether I would write it or not. The true update on my ... gratitude. Rinse, repeat. It took me a year to get to this point, which is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  from a line of rope that stretches from the tower on the left to the ... was possible, or both. The chainsaw hack is an excellent example of the ... incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  time on this and not that? What is the significance of a shot from this ... . Companies intentionally make it seem magical or out of reach to keep their ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the ... , and now the moment of glory is at hand. Do you have what it takes to be ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013