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  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  . One of the lifeguards noticed what was going on and offered to help out ... ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... . Their difficulty can be so asymmetrical. You spend ten hours stuck on a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the ... from. Here are some sunsets from our living room.     And here are ... you’ve had; on the other hand my wish for you is that through storms and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... be appealing at first glance, but is woefully short on substance. End ... also a good core principle for life. Most of us want people in our lives

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  major, making music, writing poems—the list goes on. These posts will be ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... people left on campus were those who had exception housing, for one reason

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... . I sat on my bed silently. My fingers were numb and my breaths were shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my

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

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  between my study habits then and now: I didn’t study on my bed or got swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... . I didn’t procrastacook. I made all my food on sunday and have just

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  that having great grades and scores doesn’t really help you – it just ... trying to pin it on anything else – race, gender, whatever – is just ... reflection on you. At all. Accepted, deferred, or otherwise – you are all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• 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…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... bit. So this is knowing yourself business is no longer super helpful

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

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl My family came into town on Wednesday ... on our first Valentine's Day together. I attached him to my mortarboard ... 't have my camera on me, but I've pulled some pictures from The Tech of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  several other church leaders, he went on a retreat somewhere along a ... be an engineer". I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so on ... dad knocked on my door and asked to talk. As I discussed my feelings and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a ... Boston Public Garden. Fog on the Charles River at sunrise. Crossing the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  the season on the Charles River this past Monday night. The view is of ... the Great Dome, this past Monday night on the left and this past summer on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... movie that caught my attention: Hold on, what was that? On his ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... on hacking at MIT. Hacking at MIT has nothing to do with breaking into

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall ... taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... lay in wait. After a chorus of "joyeux anniversaire", which ended on a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on the couch is Reva ‘18, who fell asleep on her laptop keyboard while ... research paper on immigration reform due this weekend that I should probably

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... few notes out. Fail. He would wave play on, like nothing happened, while ... myself on autopilot, and shot my hand in the air. On the occasions that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who ... fairly nostalgic on the eve of his graduation. So he made two more things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011