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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... singing defiantly in the group session before cutting to clips from the ... again—on walks to and from work, at my desk while writing, and lying in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... the rocks are starting to melt. A group of identical Sloan students in ... their heads toward you in perfect unison. You go to the pharos printer

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  piece of paper, society saw me as somehow qualified to be a grown up and ... looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... thinking about what I learned in college... All I Ever Really Needed to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math ... start with a few in your head and see what happens to them as you begin ... will get them to come. In my writing group we do an exercise when we all

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  entrepreneur to have some side hustles at MIT. Unfortunately, the only blog ... write blogs at our own pace through Wordpress, have a Slack to ask ... have previously received an A/A+ in a class might be asked to be a grader

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the basement of Walker Memorial in 1960. The call letters were changed to WTBS

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun ... year, around January 1st, we received a paper application in the mail ... admission to MIT in the Class of 2019, despite its impressive achievements

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  enough introvert energy to spend a whole day in my room just reading ... ” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the ... experience, really helps in deciding where to go next. There are books and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  in our bubbles, [annotation note="From my first blog post."]we come to ... applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  bottom, what seems to be at stake in this case — based on oral arguments ... —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a ... [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  dressed in robes that resemble Roman attire to give a scholarly look, and ... : Tara S. '24, major in Computation and Cognition. I basically tried to ... individual projects in various humanities fields. I put references to Course 21

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  here do not deserve recognition but rather that in choosing to display only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores ... , infused with careful critical thinking—a tribute to SHASS in style as well

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido ... industrial town in the north, I taught debate to high schoolers ranging in age ... :20,” (end stop) to “The last sentence of Dostoevsky’s White Nights was

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... Jesus' three-day decease. He pauses to let us feel the in-between. We are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and ... the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  . While I’d like to blog (both on here and not), I haven’t been. Finding time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... blogging isn’t my “job” anymore), even harder. Many things in my life are

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  across the country to join them in protests, including several school ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed ... report to our office any conduct that may result or has resulted in any

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  building in MIT and in Cambridge, with a spherical white weather machine ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . Printers would only print in black and white. Face paint and makeup would simply be made in only dark, or light. There would only be black and white ... , but because in their worlds, they never have to practice that ability

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016