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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , fairly rugged mountain - together. …We are emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied ... : "Describe the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... , for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the wealth ... its potential mootriculation, made us think that the Milk might be best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my ... principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea ... for each card. That means coordinating between 22 people, which wouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... "] SHASS.[/annotation] I, for one, think this hack was extremely well done and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... political science, or whatever, but for purposes of this post let's assume ... lock, and take measurements for a new key. I can tie knots. I can design

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... any fancy research internships or go to any summer camps; he worked for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let ... Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that ... / etc. -- you seriously want us to waste time with html?) Matt Mc

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  students even come from their college to MIT regularly to join us for Cru ... for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I ... worship team for this event and practiced for like 20 hours leading up to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  carry boxes to fighting for our friends who weren’t being granted ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... supporting us in any and every way possible, from helping pack to helping load

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more ... New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  discovered these, for better or for worse, but I'm sure that most have not ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... for MIT "hooks" and that there have been other threads asking "Is it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . 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 ... person in general. I wouldn’t trade my experience at MIT for anything and I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  happily sleep for longer.I  never pulled an all-nighter during my time at ... late.  What is something that you take for granted?    Bryan: I ... them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  the project leads for East Campus Build. Every year, [annotation note ... had past experience lining soccer fields and introduced us to the method ... only have one measuring reel long enough, so for future years we’ll buy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... Floor 2 East was the base for the 2^n cookies operation, led by Adriana J ... total approximately equal to 2^11.514. Just for clarity, these cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  that for the next couple of years. And even bringing us to: Do I even ... another, except for maybe Course 8. Fuck physics. Recently, I've been reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... ’re here, you’re an outlier, because so many of us actually feel like

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT ... entire undergraduate population, which includes Burton-Conner. Reasons for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016