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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... convenient. I quickly walk over from Hockfield Court and stick the food in my ... put a ton of stress on its internal structure, and cause it to break or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  other and the interviewers. I thought it would be terrifying; the bios of ... went to the nearby CVS and bought one of the DVD’s that was on sale. The ... !!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  . These discussions (and hate-reading comments on the internet) will be a ... can quickly become distracting, and the feeling of curling up in ... 's insecurities. Know your value and focus on being your best self. 8) Figure out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  and to quickly dump their knowledge on how the club/performances should ... "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... the page on that project, I bounced around a few new project ideas

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  is wonderful, and can make you feel like you’re on top of the world ... when I first got on campus. People here were always used to being the top ... ? And it makes me reflect even more on my past. At the end of my freshman

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  , on Tuesday, the international students and FPOPs will come ... , the duality of BIG EMOTION AHHHH and ~just havin' a fun ol' time~ can be ... headspace, can be an emotion to embrace. The world is a wild and wonderful

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  bike. Now, eight weeks later, I can hop on the bike, and it takes me most ... the thing I'm designing on my screen can actually be manufactured in ... can continue to build on and grow as I pursue what I want in the future

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you ... the Peano axioms. Someone wants to know if this will be on the test. The ... library. Halfway down the aisle you get turned around and can’t find the way

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  time I went home. Put the quality on 1080 and see the color green unlike ... can coexist on the same timeline. Every time I board a plane, I can ... pages about how I wish I could uproot MIT, put it on a plane, and take it

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  home feel a world away; I am being taken by both the excitement and the ... ! internally! about! how! quickly! the! year! flew! by!) Anyway...consider this ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  life out here has comprised of coexisting as teacher and student. On the ... -entertaining friends and classmates doing the chattering and giggling. On the learner ... host teaches Algebra I, Algebra II, and Pre-Calculus. The high school is

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

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

  

  it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT ... in high school as a lot of other students, ideas and mindsets can be ... you updated on that hair care, and giving black women a place to be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  . I sat on my bed silently. My fingers were numb and my breaths were shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... into the darkness of the jet black irises hoping that I might be able to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sprinter down the hallway, and can probably spot a fly a building away. He ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... , and (begrudgingly) the tiny scissors on my keychain multitool. I tried

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  can be mitigated with a smaller device like a Raspberry Pi. On the 608 ... can then be displayed on the ESP32 after parsing. This also prevents ... number of times, and, based on the number of presses, the system will look

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  effects. It can be both a terrible and potentially wonderful thing. It ... about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... feeling of adrenaline pumping through your body. It can be a part of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  can go into. And the career we envision we want will impact our choice ... clearly by graphing on a plot. This graph is looking at the short term and ... typical one. However, the stuff that we feel we'd be missing out on (as we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a ... quizzing you on math concepts during your interviewer, and all the math is ... getting a job is not fun, and can cause you to get pretty behind on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  room quickly and made it to the kitchen on my floor. It was empty. I ran ... house and listened in on upperclassmen, who at the time had the aura of ... decided to grab breakfast, and I zoned out while munching on waffles at the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted ... , because it hurts and it can't do things it usually can. When I went to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018