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A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo
There was another hack on campus this morning! This time, it would appear that some hackers decided to turn the Infinite into a zoo, featuring the imagined animalistic avatars of some MIT courses,...
View ArticleMy Monday
10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to have class. But mandatory attendance… 11:00 → I’m at Harvard. The light percolates through the autumn leaves in the Yard. I’m...
View ArticleSunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA)
About the Early Action Deadline and Application Components Early Action applications should be submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students...
View ArticleMy Monday (in Snaps)
(Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life at MIT post) 8:45: Wakeup. For real this time, after 10+ snoozes. 8:53: First snap! Of a TMAYD MIT (Tell Me About Your Day MIT)...
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MIT Inside vs. Outside
"Yes I said etc...... Just don't think about it to much (oh and I'm working on getting a better camera so apologies ahed of time)" I am not sure if you guys have the same feeling, but sometimes you...
View ArticleAn MIT Week
What is the typical MIT weekly schedule? The answer varies wildly among students. On average, the time spent on work per week is between 23 to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also...
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Hogwarts Institute of Technology
Hey friends!! I wanted to drop this brief blag here because I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have known, I am a *gigantic* Harry Potter nerd.I am one of...
View ArticleOn Escaping
I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester is going, though. I'm working on so many different...
View ArticleNovember 1st is my January 1st
These past three weeks have been really hard. And I'm sure that for you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if your experience was like mine, many people were doubting you....
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Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team
Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few minutes later, my friend Holly responded and said that, duh,...
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Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues
My breakfast last Thursday: a Red Bull and an antibiotic. That's the kind of week I've had. Lots of deadlines, meetings, late nights, acne cream. But I can't complain--I've had more than my fair share...
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Broken
I did it again. I broke my right foot. Well not really, it's just really badly sprained. IT HURTS SO MUCH! But goodbye crutches, I'm sticking to my good friend, the air-boot-cast. Before you all go...
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Summary of the Semester
I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy. So many crazy things. So much has changed. So where did it go? What's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh...
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Macarrones con Queso, Tocino y Jalapeño para los Indigentes
Si usted leyó mi blog anterior, sabe que he tenido un Octubre muy duro. Sin embargo, la efusión de las respuestas de estudiantes de escuela secundaria y universitaria que comparten historias similares...
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Jalapeno Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless
If you read my last post, I've had a pretty hard October. However, the outpouring of responses from high school and college students alike sharing similar stories helped me realize how we're all...
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Steady-state Equilibrium
-- THREE WEEKS AGO -- Thursday night, while debugging an Arithmetic Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I...
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I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting
Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it”). Five are on the drop, drilling: two on the...
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Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2
Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3. 1 Congratulations, Early Action...
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Dear Applicants: The College Essay
Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3. 3 How can you describe your essence...
View ArticleWhat My College Essays Were [Not]
During my college application season, the adults around me (in addition to books like 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, which I would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded...
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