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  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  minutes after), we should get out of bed and run over, because nine times ... , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it ... . Look at the long game. A lot of times we get all focused and wound up on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  :45am second alarm (actually wake up) 9:17am get out of bed 9:27am realize ... that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... , tiring day because I always love getting mail. 1:00am watch Sleepy Hollow

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if you struggle and get too tense, you sink -- so just float and stay ... the line. Sometimes it means getting ready for the next push, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  post-docs -- and from them, I hear that it doesn't get better. It's not ... , getting to know you guys!) You will arrive at MIT at a time when the fight ... your interactions. Take advantage of the fact that you're already getting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... says about her daily life at MIT. She loves that you can get a daily fix ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  of people roaming Boston together, while I was still trying to get my ... enough to cover a Dunkin’ run, but I can get seats to a baseball game for ... same things as you. For me, this has included getting to play with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  Muji and get a fresh notebook just so I can fill it with more writing ... a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... ’re surrounded by people that know what is around the corner miles before they get

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... months—but, eventually, you’ll get there. This piece of advice is a little ... get work done when you do not feel like you have opted for that work

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  family and contributing at home.  How many hours of sleep did you get last ... lower than my usual. I’m generally pretty strict about getting at least ... ;   Afeefah: 100% good health. I’ve been trying to get into a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  make sure you're preserving some emotional energy to get through your own ... process is tough for everyone and its hard for anyone to get through it ... yourself when getting advice from others because not all advice is good

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  contentedness. there are things that happen when you graduate. you get gently ... immediately so you get some trailing emails delegating tasks or announcing ... appear and never get developed. ideas i had that didn't fit in anywhere, or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... most MIT hopefuls are either. I started getting serious about studying ... freshman to junior year. It felt good to me to get good grades because good

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

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  filming randomly with my phone, but I hope that I'll get more comfortable ... to bump my own post... but I also don't want my videos to get ... sometimes. I'll probably post the video and then try to get a little more

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  , clutching all sorts of books, taking pictures of and getting autographs from ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the ... getting used to this, still clamored for the safe familiarity of home—of my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  encourage us all to volunteer - "Come on guys, we've got to get you more ... getting to that age where people from professors to the guy who mops my dorm ... 's looking like red, but it's still a little too early to tell. I'll get back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009