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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... if you know either Nisha or me in real life—even tangentially ... me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  ramble, I rant, I rave - because that's part of who I am in real life, and ... It's been over two weeks since I last blogged, and I've been working ... a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  picky in terms of what companies i'm willing to work for, and also have ... internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... internships that are available, and also the ones that are most relevant to me

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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  ’s problems aren’t really real in the same way that my problems are real, and ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to him tell his life story to me and talk about what he wants to do after

  • 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.

  

  proportion of the self-reported underwear colors is real and what proportion is ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  , feel free to skip to the video and the extraction protocol, or just the ... vegetable or fruit, one cup water, and one eighth teaspoon salt. If you ... took at the end of the process. The fruits and vegetables used, clockwise

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I ... “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome, white and round like an ancient temple, while a thought crossed his mind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  pass through the 'tute - Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga ... collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday, we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute and “build a better understanding between countries.” Through his ... between North and South America. … If North and South America stand together

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  worthless Conner 3 residents, and a bloody dormwide revolution ignited when someone whipped their shirt around their head and declared, "YOU CAN TAKE ... clusters were flung through the air and UROP proposals were set ablaze as the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  commercial spice mixes because we have no space for a real spice rack and don ... and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  , but that each and every applicant has been given a lifetime's worth of opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... and rapidly refuted her claims with a dazzling barrage of nicely ... consonant strings like 'dx' and 'dt' in permutations whose English

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and ... reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... setbacks and mistakes, I gained resilience and principle. My freshman year at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... them up a bit, and here they are: 1. Just read it. Every once inawhile I ... , and I personally try to link each entry to as many other entries as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it ... for the agonizing six weeks following October 31. And then, I got this

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  (on a real stall), mockup review, final alpha prototype on stage.   ... presenters – “excitement,” “magic” and &ldquo ... a live band, an audience of 3300, and an overall class budget of a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  " and manifests in very real and tangible forms. She taught me a breathing ... depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and ... and we get out of bed We get dressed We clean up last night's mess And

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022