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  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... on Tumblr In hindsight, I am positive that signing up for a Tumblr ... chopped up at the stems like the sadistic maniac I am. Heh heh. Anyway, it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  . Friday morning I woke up at 7:00 after having gone to bed at 4:30 (PSETs ... then Julia and I headed inside. We saw a bunch of empty seats up front ... special enough to sit in those seats. We ended up about 7 rows back and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  smoke fills the room and the cook always ends up coughing and crying ... ,[/annotation] at least from the experiences of others that I've read up on: one ... queued up [annotation note='a rock band']Red Hot Chili Peppers

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  and wanted to come up with new designs. The first one I made was ... show," insinuated the prof. That week, I promptly looked up the show and ... -acetylene torch, and chisels. I wound up using all four of these during the design

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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up and we get out of bed We get dressed We clean up last night's mess And ... healing faster. Nobody thought that I was messed up and irreparable

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  up last year, I decided to apply so I could voice these thoughts ... people showed up to this online forum. During my time serving on a ... change. Maybe fewer people showed up to this year’s forum because of Zoom

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  companies fill up two gymnasiums and a track field with booths and you have to ... 'm especially terrible at coming up with. Imagine if your MIT interviewer started ... challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high ... for me shooting up. It felt good. I’ll admit it. It felt good. I now ... don’t live up to that label. Sometimes it feels that I’m not gay enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  made up. My parsing might be imperfect, especially if anyone made a ... purple. Finally, we can calculate the denominator, Pr(purple), by adding up ... code up a sorting hat. It won’t be an exact sorting hat—the fact that you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , I approached a friend. Ruben P. ’18 had stood up before the panel, and ... —murmured laughingly.   “I am African-American,” he continued, “and growing up I ... America, what it could look like. I grew up envisioning, where else could I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... I could hit up anyway. In the worst case, I could probably sleep in a ... hit up David, and some other people I knew who were studying in MIT, and

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

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  the MIT Reports to the President, and I even ended up interviewing Matt ... students who actually end up enrolling. For the class admitted in 1984, [annotation note='Per the 1986 Report, 1059 out of 1854.']57% of them ended up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  listen to them catch everyone up each week about their grandchildren ... –it’s kind of hard to see, but the carriage is moving up and down to vary the ... drawing are my bread and butter mediums, so I ended up with a good amount of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even ... . —anonymous climbing up a shaft with fiberglass walls. —anonymous getting a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  partner in this start-up is just as disingenuous.  Personally, I think the ... deepest insecurities is the idea that I will never catch up, which manifests ... resources and information at a young age, I would have grown up to be a math

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick-up ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always ... ! What up haters, today we're gonna unleash another furious beast of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  ”....That night, I realized there are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset ... are tentatively up to for the next five years, what they are excited for ... . It’s built to be part time, it’s right up the street (I tend to do

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  make up excuses like that I didn't know the syntax of MITx, but the short ... kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up ... pacing. The class was split up and had enough professors and TAs that every

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... my sorority has ended up being one of the one of the best and most ... the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The ... in 1945. Building 20 stayed up until 1998. Why did Building 20 take 55 ... running for too long, and your water bill goes up. Leave it to me I talk so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023