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  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  even have to be at MIT to do it.  Art of Problem Solving My first encounter with Internet mathematics occurred when my high school ... point out my mistake. If I wrote something unclear, someone would ask me

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  on a tangent about my sailing PE class at some point. (If you were ... about sailing. I’m a “story” kind of a person. I structure a lot of my ... was doing during the sound check for the webcast: telling my sailing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  persuasive five-paragraph essay, my three thesis-support arguments would be: (1 ... ) nobody in my family has ever won the lottery, suggesting that my otherwise ... my genetic misfortunes, despite the misguided expectations instilled in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  bed with a dozen other people, carrying part of my couch upstairs for no ... (read: non-MIT) visitors, locking myself out of my room two times in one ... , suffering great pain in my knuckles because I did not conserve the momentum of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in ... of someone who was pretty involved (in my opinion) during the high ... /USA Mathcamp!, Colby College, Maine I visited MIT for my very first time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  It has been far too long since my last entry, and I have an excuse for every day that I have neglected my blog. The short story is that I ... from Paul ’11 many weeks ago that asked about my choice of major (a sub

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  Three summers ago, I visited MIT with one of my fellow schoolmates ... mean somewhere along the middle of your journey). So this will be my home for the next four years. (Along with my Mathcamp schoolmate from 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  cicada or something and it made me think about my choice to come to MIT, the current state of my life and psyche, and the existence of God ... , but they also serve to inflate my vast and uncontrollable ego. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  to lab tonight at 7:30 to change the media on my COS cells... and if ... experience life on the east coast. A lot of kids from my senior class went to ... motivated and encourages you to work your hardest. My personal suspicion is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... , Georgia, but the Dukes of Hazzard TV show was filmed in my hometown of ... , my most favoritest band ever, from Atlanta's Alternative Radio Station

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  am brief and to the point with my answers! Questions answered by helpers A.M.C. asked, "Just to make sure: Have you received my CD-ROM that contains the supplemental materials by now? The disc is labeled with my name

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  should select Physics or an Engineering course as my major during ... then go into Physics or should I stick with Physics itself? -and- My ... , citing a lack of interviewers in my region. Will this adversely affect my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every question that is asked. Below, and in my other Questions Omnibus posts, I try ... (which has been my excuse for the past two days). Anyway, as an EC, here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  ="Alan: also Cameron gets a special shoutout because she went to my high school ... /where did you learn about MIT? Natalie: My brother was considering MIT when ... summer before my freshman year of high school, 2014. Christian: In fifth

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  New month, new classes, new semester, yet still my cramping hand ... should take my own notes, write on the slides, or write on the notes ... and drop different parts of my notes on my IPad so I have space to edit

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  's not a slow, methodological process   against my will ... only when the inspiration threshold hits and my sweet little creativity ... critic (I sometimes describe my cuisine experience to whoever is out for a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... [annotation note="my floor/living community"]B2[/annotation]’s notably tropical ... find some of my friends upstairs, changed into more cold

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my ... with my left hand and I'm really proud of it MIT Coop please reach out to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  . My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the ... . [annotation note="And try their highest level of spice."][/annotation] To my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions ... Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my ... call my virtual critters in the OTHER Nintendo-affiliated Niantic game

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024