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  what am i doing great question.

  

  a UROP on the DCP team at the Media Lab has really helped (those two ... ’t all bad, I suppose) today I could actually tell you what I’m doing this ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed ... you're in-game 24/7. On weekdays I usually entered game at around 7 or 8 PM and stayed until 1 or 2 AM, and on weekends I entered at around 3 or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  applications, my UROP, being a news editor for The Tech, and, well, living. The ... proclaims "Challenge accepted..." Oh, how true. When giving tours on campus ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  to Let’s Chat, and not only because the conversation was helpful. It ... laundry, and this helps you get back to a place where you can work on ... project in Ethiopia. When back on campus, I continued to be involved in many

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  timely, because as Shuli J. ’22 pointed out, today is International Haiku ... much the same as last time. I took the model I previously trained on my old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  block, and past Central Square. I thought about my 6.004 circuit error. I ... ’t make it on the first Wednesday, but… -- ONE WEEK AGO -- A week later I ... eight weeks. I have one later today, and another tomorrow. Next week I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  of it. We'll call you and tell you what's going on with our lives, tell ... admissions process, I like helping admitted students learn about MIT before ... I normally won't is explore the bowels of College Confidential (if I

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  on top of the blocks. This was where our first wood cut inaccuracies ... new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... classmates helped build.) I'm really grateful that Zack I. '27 offered to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  offices and goodness knows what else, on campus and around the world. As ... winner on his knees, begging you to UROP with him. "I'll even give you my ... found it very helpful. Think about what your interests are. You

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  of women in academic spaces, especially technical ones, lives on today ... purple-leaved tree on our block of Commonwealth Avenue was located on the ... lived) across the river to tEp, I recruited help from two friends to load

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  sounds like: living in a van, which is gutted and re-modeled on the inside ... exhausted. I lived on the shitty stale coffee you only find in gas stations ... walking. I’d been living on pizza and espresso and this one weird brand of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  't have your people. Sometimes, you’ll find your best living group on only ... ’re absolutely certain where you want to live, it’s helpful to discover different ... . Consider whether you want to live on a floor (e.g. Random or Maseeh) or in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area ... Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some ... Luncheon on Reg Day. I’ve paneled at every one since. The Returning

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real ... ’re looking for that, we have plenty of great essay advice on our site already. Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  , and I was even contacted by a company to have a coffee chat about 2020 ... ="attachment_48337" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] lotta red on there[/caption] The ... change. This year, I made the excellent choice of [annotation note="La

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  help of some other people left on Floor Pi, we cleaned the kitchen, a ... , and went on my phone. I talked on Discord and chatted with friends for ... , that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that ... were only there to help boost your grade on the final. Human ... explore Zürich, hop on the train to visit cities like Lausanne, Lucerne

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  least I noticed it today) I'm probably going to be more hesistant about ... Toast, meta vlogging Token Male Friend || VEDA #9 – music pt.1 ... '  Optimism || VEDA #26 – MIT Ballroom Open II, Jeremy Jordan, reflecting on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015