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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web ... for the pocket to release indigestible material that accumulates over ... have started making masks for themselves, but some have started to evolve

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... 's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... her room, and it seemed as though she was just waiting for us to leave ... work!” I thought it was silly for her neighbor to be so despondent and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  meet again, but under what circumstances? How long will we be able to talk for? How different will we be? This group of people, this semester ... line goes "how lucky am I to have something which makes saying goodbye so

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

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... function of how far you want every dollar that you spend to go. To get my ... you need to."  That's all common sense, but it was surprising how

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  endeavors. She is proud of MIT and how it can provide real solutions to ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... ’s how we know it. The elegance of science is something to be admired. If

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• 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.

  

  possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10 ... see how dedicated their children are to their problem sets) as Lauren

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... trying to bring people together to do fun stuff. For example, a few days ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to drive down for the eclipse so

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  to the Institute. Often called HowToGAMIT for short, the handbook is ... name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class ... affectionate name for MIT. hosed (adj.) - Flooded with work, as if attempting to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... for me to adjust to: Struggling to find people with my background. As

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... right before they came out, checked, felt happy, went back to sleep for a ... as not to alert my parents who were home at that time “for no reason

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to ... Pythagorean Theorem is difficult when you have no idea how to square, or take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  , boots, and EXTRA PANTS. Regardless of how many people make fun of you for ... won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get ... still live to talk about it. All dorms have kitchens, but how much you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  on my internship for vital job experience, or how I’m probably going to ... I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  for 21W.758 aka. MIT.616). I'm usually really bad at talking to ... how lovely she is then! 12:30pm leave Burdick's and decide to walk to ... Workbar   I usually only go to Central for art supplies, so it's fun

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  protein engineering and computational biology to try to understand how a ... ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that ... for my day job, I’m trying to combine my experience in biological

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... with balloons and herd everyone into the room to wait for you to come ... 'm passing 18.03..") Another point to how we're the best floor ever - we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  worship team for this event and practiced for like 20 hours leading up to ... students even come from their college to MIT regularly to join us for Cru ... start or join then you can definitely take the initiative to do so! For

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024