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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  helping him. His dad says: Watch what the people do. Watch how they get on ... never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ... to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  cliffs on campus, but this frosh is standing on top of the Great Dome. (don ... on Instagram. The magician; blowing a witch’s ball out of glass. Using ... Computation and Cognition, @hydreajia on Instagram. With physics as a graduation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  our dramatic lives and a break from your own. (You are reading ... in the wrong tower. You walk down the stairs, and exit on the top floor ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  on a Thursday, already an indication that it wildly exaggerates all ... pre-frosh and MIT students alike were sprawled on the floor building ... , I joined an upperclassman who invited me to help her make a duct tape

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... each one of these admissions offices, and not one of them is MIT. On the ... help you to understand. Maybe you think the admissions process works like

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  recreational exploration."][/annotation] Bad Ideas is an annual tradition at MIT ... used on Saturday and the rest has since been distributed to other halls ... finished off at the Bad Ideas Ball held on Sunday night. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ? First: Mom, Dad, and sis are doing really well.  We’re living in ... , although you’re friends on Facebook. You have a lot of different friends now ... .  Loneliness is a type of grief, maybe. I can’t help but imagine you as little

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... after turning on the Admissions Machine the day after applications are due ... produced. This is why, incidentally, David put so much emphasis on making the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  me, I won't review the past year on here, but I made a Substack post about it. Someone asked me today what my 2023 resolutions were, and I ... Sadly, I did not come up with the title pun myself, I saw it on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL ... on all sides by enormous MIT buildings and think of all the cool shit

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... create a system that lets them drive a go-cart. Now they're working on ... 's so much resistance in the lamp. If the lamp is on, it goes through the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... couldn't figure things out on their own. By second semester freshman year I ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  and it really shaped who I am today," 2) "Having spent all four years of ... ) explicitly on a silver platter. The most compelling essays I feel are those that sufficiently paint the picture for the reader, and then leave him on

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

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... of the night. Malingap is someone organizing a grocery run based on an ... ’m helping build a fort. I’ve experienced so many new and wonderful things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... friends wearing silly hats. Go on Nerf fights. Spend hours wandering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  don’t break on a structure, more about what spices to put together in ... one I lived in then, and in a lot of ways, I have improved at life ... freshman year, every D or F on a test chipping away at the carefully curated

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  it on Facebook detailing his route, the times he arrived at each ... few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it ... were parts when we immediately turn around on a station, or stay on a bus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  running the marathon. He told me it will help with the pain on race day, but ... Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair ... , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  research, knowledge, and exploration is linked to its "technical rigor ... as substance. It provides a great opportunity to reflect on what MIT ... , lecturer, or affiliate on the chalkboard or print out a page yourself and add

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023