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  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  perfect. But it at least allows some flexibility, which is good for those ... , by coasting for weeks at a time and then cramming two nights before the ... to ask for help when they need it. Also, at MIT, first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  capacity for what really matters. But at a certain point, it's our job to ... days at home for the holidays will pay down the interest and float me ... internally inconsistent or erratic, at least for highly selective schools, is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  being at MIT helped you in this regard? MIT has been really good for networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New ... different technical persuasions did for fun, until I came here. Let me

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel ... empty hallways looking for people to shoot. Mull over your life decisions ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... for feeding yourself, setting your own curfew (or not), and choosing for ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but sometimes 11:21 or 11:22 work just as well. When I rise at 11:22, I don’t get ... expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional ... suicide and mental health at mit. my undergraduate thesis for comparative ... mattering. snowballs and shuttle buses and moments to save for nostalgia. at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the ... of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  unquestionable ability to thrive at MIT—lasted for maybe six weeks. Then, I hit the ... you feeling at once grateful for the insight and foolish for ever having ... calves, and I started to limp for the remaining 9.2 miles. At Hereford St

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

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  different from the rain here. Back at home, if it does rain, it will rain for ... languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a ... enough for. We might describe the weather with pumapatak, or dripping

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing ... 'll still be at mit next year, sign up for the lottery!! the list center has ... last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  super steak burrito at Anna's; ask for the tomato salad instead of the ... ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  . For this post, I've written up 22 anecdotes from my time at tEp. (Read ... I can really say is that 22 is a recurring theme at tEp. For example ... -and-clean team for group dinners and brunches. Dinner was served at 7:22 PM and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this ... truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless ... at a whiteboard that proclaimed two hundred dollars’ worth of chips

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  for May ball and its fireworks! Old friends and new friends at St ... school term. At Cambridge, it’s extremely rare for undergraduates to ... Hello guys! Sorry for the super duper long hiatus :( After my final

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things ... decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  , MIT is the best at that, right?” “Well, I learned a ton, that’s for sure ... around with old car parts in his backyard, Spencer spent four years at MIT working at companies like WiTricity and OtherLab, and researching at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015