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  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  following: keep track of your stuff; learn your Athena commands; people at MIT ... the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  effective. So, we should really be taking more advantage of that in robotics ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them ... complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from

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

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... minutes after class, one of the Pre-Calc kids was at the board, while I sat ... teacher side of things: I go to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6:30. I improvise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  't know exactly what level of celebrity we were dealing with here. At 1 ... DID YOU KNOW? Amazon.com sold out of their entire stock of the Wii on the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... 's recent post, around this time of year there are usually a bunch of "pre

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some ... places at MIT and make new friends. Don’t stop at the first impression

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  them from Mr. Neha constantly throughout the year. At the beginning of ... you'll need to either bring it home or store it at the end of the year ... functionality of a desktop with the portability of a laptop! Starting at $1999

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... events. So today, instead of diving deep into what I’ve been doing all this ... female figure in my life and still (even being at MIT!) the smartest person

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  /really cool grown-ups. As a part of their “residency,” they put on events at ... at life outside of MIT every now and then. In any case, go Cards! And ... , both of which were yesterday. It’s funny how slowly three hours passes by

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  ; Angela '10 At the end of the year each floor in Burton-Conner holds ... singles at the end of their first year. "I picked my room because I thought ... into singles at the beginning of the semester, but each turned it down

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  usually at the end of the semester, occasionally mid-semester for half ... do when Life’s Coming At You FAST"]little bit of planning ... didn’t think of the class at all. I spent a lot of this time period

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  ’re playing with your upper limits. A lot of people don’t rejected at all; they ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... a Game. There's plenty of other meaningful prose by other brilliant

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 7, 2014
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... . The start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  . Oh, boy did I learn about the importance of sleep. For me at least ... productive, and feel more satisfied and less frustrated at the end of the day ... Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'd show you my freshman year. I moved into one of the dorms at MIT thinking ... difficult math class at MIT), and a slew of other math courses. And to top it ... difficulties and coached me. I ended up pulling a B+ at the end of a semester and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... and turns red because of science I won’t get into. Now, this itself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... 't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018