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  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and ... ." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session ... officer? That is, someone admitted on a very tipped scale towards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my ... - my best friend told me that some kids were betting on how long I would

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... conference tournament champion.  To get our hands on that trophy, we had to ... and checked off a huge goal on our season bucket list! It really doesn

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  describing their majors. As they munched on cookies, they told us about how ... their majors by visualizing it on a very large piece of plywood. Each ... prompts based on the interviews we did. 1. Once upon a time, I thought I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... stairwells, situated on Ames Street directly across from the Central Scientific ... people were unwilling to climb onto the rooftops. On October 6, 1916, MIT

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... working on essays full-time, procrastinating on research papers so that I could work on apps in class. By October, I was spending more time on MIT

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  from all the times I fell on my poor, poor bottom, and I'm pretty sure ... back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I ... snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... tried my best Kari Byron = “Cheesiness on the pun scale” Tory Belleci ... of potential awesomeness” Francis Lawrence = "the amount of sweat on

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try ... : Breakfast on these mornings is always Go-Gurt (despite scarily

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  steep slopes on narrow brick and stone streets; it is hidden alleyways ... facing the street. I am sharing it with you because 1. There is a store on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  crying” on the symptom list and the nurse got really confused and told me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  , laying it on an anvil) and molding the exterior with chisels. This is how ... ![/caption] The fourth one experiments with leaves (a success!) and twists on a ... and the sides of the heart. Happily this worked on the first try! Now

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried ... lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I ... . The summer after my freshman year at MIT, I wrote the following on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  local coffeeshop in my hometown called mission coffee.    a few words on ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... wisdom teeth removed. i reflected on the fact that i was totally

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  give you written feedback and a preliminary decision based on the current ... undergrad who had juggled this project on top of a full course load and other

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  's fascinating research on early Chinese students at MIT). I worked on the project in the summer and over IAP, focusing primarily on creating profiles of ... a great student. In the MIT Faculty Records (the Committee on Academic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  electronics on board.  So here's the boathouse from another angle: (6

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  my seat and begrudgingly turn off wifi on all my TSA ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is ... getting it on. So fast forward a bit: I'm there again at the end of August

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  render judgment on you? You know what you have to offer. It’s not worth ... ’t hand you a perfect life on a glittering platter. And if you’re ambitious

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016