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  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  they can't finish what they signed up to do. It's not that that person is ... helped me come up with many of the ideas that make the card what it is :) V ... Engineering The Hermit gives up outside distractions to focus on their work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  it in JavaScript. Well, that ended up changing. Over the past two years ... frustration led me to make qboard. When I thought about what I've made up to ... , and editing text are all skills I've applied, and skills I've picked up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  professional. The students were trained and skilled—certainly living up to the ... -located housing, students would end up interacting, an activity which would no ... sketches. Clubs began to pop up, given the increased time more students were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  inevitably be split up at the end of the year. It also was incredibly ... becoming a member of TT, I knew I was signing myself up for trauma ... expressed their intent to live in apartments, so I ended up stapling with the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  love having to set my body up precisely to execute a lift safely. I love ... couldn't deadlift inside unless I wanted to end up in my landlady's living ... cinder block oven for a disastrously large pie. I loaded up lots of lumber

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  different. This is waking up at eleven in the morning, and already feeling ... has been stacked. I wake up and I go to an orientation event or take an ... itself up like clay on my shoulders. Maybe that’s why frosh energy is such

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , something reddish that involved guava—when a recruiter sidled up. Her greeting ... up a new game. I imagined Pac-Man, endlessly swerving about his maze ... , footsteps meandering as if I had somewhere to go, but somehow never ending up

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  truly become my home. I have lived here, grown up here, and found family ... the end of classes. I teared up at the Black graduate celebration, at ... tutored 6th grade math. While wrapping up my time here, I got so excited

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of ... ’s charged up, jubilant cheers and introductions, that feeling grew. The tears ... of my self worth. I feel less guilty about friendships I can’t keep up

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  looked up only to meet 6 sets of eyes. Each set seemed to reflect upon ... hands instead; my stomach just wanted to throw up all of the thoughts it ... white. One more time. I had to stop breathing and blinking to muster up

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

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  hair, looking up and around and having the greatest time. We have gone to ... Italian deserts. On warm days, the North End restaurants also open up their ... up for the night, usually around midnight, students can still venture

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  the Alchemist Statue, curled up on the floor, staring moodily at the ... its history reaching up from invisible depths to welcome me with open ... though trying to keep up with the energy of students. A thousand events

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  scores: This pretty much sums it up: SAT Math 750-800 15% 700-740 10% 650 ... other traits and end up, as a side effect, with a disproportionate number ... : The admit rate for students from Wisconsin went up 2%, MIT must really want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... time. 9:35pm: Ethan comes up to not-so-subtly cough about the slow ... don't even know how this came up, but somewhere it was noted that there

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  their own advantages and limitations. I can't just make things up when I ... past ten days or so, as I finished up my finals and packed up my bags to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  , schedules are either all pick-up (you sign up for as many shifts you want each ... websites of start-ups/small businesses that maybe don't have the same web ... easy way to find out if they need any paid help for set-up

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  context when it comes up. What is CMS? I don't have a snappy answer. Like ... 2023 story goals because of the wrap-up slides."]2021 and 2023 ... narrative. In both the 2021 Hunt Wrap-Up and the 2023 Hunt Wrap-Up, there's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  stop than with the harsh reviews. I hate the feeling of giving up, of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  what, you end up as a future-you that is yourself. While all of that may ... and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the ... I’ll end up. The advice to deal with this usually goes something like

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021