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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... pushed back a year, letting me enjoy two and a half years at East Campus ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well ... heading back. After sitting down at my desk, the ALU didn’t seem quite so ... like the only thing in my life at the moment. The world was bigger than

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  So you might be looking at the CPW schedule and thinking...   ... parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at ... are late at night. You have the rest of high school to sleep. K: Truth

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  , not even me, can give you an accurate chance at MIT! What I said then ... forum, not even me, can give you a meaningful chance at MIT. Why ... prepared to do the work at MIT, you will not be admitted, because we don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  Thursday nights, I usually use hints obtained from my TA at Thursday ... . (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster ... bloggers care to complain/rave? 3. I should have stated this at the outset

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... cobblestones, and happy laughter flutters down to us at street level from ... at night is like dreaming. Pretty houses, pretty fences—it is our

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  -watching! There is plenty to look at besides passing humans as well, like the old ... a coffee at the Thinking Cup, an adorable coffee shop for the tired ... complete the satisfactory outing, we had at least a dozen different bubble

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has ... fact, that at times it will irrefutably convince you that it is not ... difficult to implement at first glance, but believe me, once you train

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for mirchi, an bollywood/fusion dance group who performed at south asian ...   stuffed my face at boston restaurant week... two nights in a row ... celebrate less than 100 days left at MIT!   a few days ago i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work ... , embodied, manifest in some material form) I think is just as interesting, at ... reading until we have read all the applications, period. We read at night

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors ... to “leave the room” so the committee members could deliberate. At 11

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  you and other runners leaving at your time will sort of swirl, in a ... , three days later, shot Sean Collier outside the Stata Center at the ... subjects, I would shrug and figure I just wasn't ‘naturally' good at e

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  attend the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston that year. MIT, at that point in ... “oh it’s good at science” and “college is a really long way away”. I was ... after that trip. I know that MIT was in my mind at least a little bit

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  wish is to go unfulfilled. You have another midterm tomorrow morning at 9 AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started ... I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... Luncheon on Reg Day. I’ve paneled at every one since. The Returning ... , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... #2. After arriving at Baker's island, we anchored offshore and took

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS ... living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... don't have an 14.01 pset, you'll wake up to at least ten emails between

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... ="attachment_99789" align="alignnone" width="768"] hike with friend[/caption]   At the ... exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead ... 'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather be closer to or ... weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016