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  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  we were finding MIT so far. Then we played multiple games, from Never ... weird, fun games we’d play with each other, and spent inordinate amounts ... . I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  and its tendrils for instilling this belief, i played a part in it too ... if extracting my physical energy as a tax for my sin. the entire month ... with machine learning. i am also a counselor for promys. it’s a math

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my MIT career, I dropped a course. There were a variety of reasons for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  matching game; how well the user plays determines how denoised their output ... ="107775" image5="107776" /] I made this book, “Conversations for Beginners,” for ... for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  mentioned for free online, if you want to have an idea of the state of physics ... , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What ... catalog online. It consists of an overview of MIT, some notes on campus life

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy ... clear. Also, comics are fun to play around with, even though I have very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My ... ’t entirely true. For one, I get spooked easily. Whenever I entertained the idea

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  level the playing field, running scripts for the colleges we thought ... 'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... Victoria Secret was having for their collegiate Pink! line. They had a list

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  originally sign up for four and three-quarters, putting the last class on ... leave - I was ready to fly far away from Asia and be part of a new great ... have lived in for the last three years, shutting the window because

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  really into forking over vast sums of money for combination cell phone ... . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because ... only a sleeping bag (good for retreats or sleepovers) and had their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited ... . Meet your high school friends over break. Oh, and brace yourself for an ... played Some Nights by fun. over and over on that first independent work

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  and exhaust. Getting onto it from the Boston side is like playing a game ... so for the rest of my MIT career, and maybe even further beyond. I even wrote about wanting to design bridges for my application to MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  offers to give me some money for breakfast or something, which was very ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night ... continually shedding the old enchantment for the new. Zero. My flight going from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  2020 who are all struggling with the same basic decision as Sam: whether ... for all four years (they don't), or whether MIT students ever study ... weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an ... -001. Anyway, let me set the scene: one day in the summer of 2020—at the height

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  want, and balance money, passion, and family however you want. Next year you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... for feeding yourself, setting your own curfew (or not), and choosing for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could best predict my chances for March. I’m going to tell you now what I wish ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... have run a quick game, and then there should’ve been Meet the Bloggers ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i

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

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my ... find the description (or even the entire course) online. So, instead of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018