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  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  ...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim, I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of being a computer science major again. Why? Well, I slightly blame the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  said country, which in my case would be Germany. Too bad I don't know any German. Not kidding: I just googled 'how to say good-bye in German.' Google Translate, I love you. (Edit: Actually, I don't. Considering the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  Remember that epic pset I told you about? Well, a few days after that pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  I've decided that before I go to bed I should take advantage of the ... propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I figured that if I was trying to keep up with my "entry every other day" pace

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult, or something. I'm not very far from "the real world," as they say, and apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... saw the aurora borealis. I'm a little too sleepy to blog about all of it tonight, so I'll leave you with this moral dilemma: On the way home

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  posts:   ---- On Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by ... outside of the bathroom. ----- So I bought some Ethereum at $7 and it's worth $400 now... ---- Looks like I decided to write something at a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  [by Vicky Thomas '12] Like most of you reading this, I stalk these ... , when I was sitting at work... er... my room... and I noticed Matt's entry "On taking a 'Gap Year'", I remembered that I've been meaning to write

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  keep poking at it anyways... I took a robotics class last semester that ... else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... was incredibly knowledgeable, approachable, and kind. When I asked for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  environment filled with vicious, competitive peers. When I got into MIT, they might be nice to my face, but I know they were secretly upset. They didn ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I really like it, so I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  i don't care about things any more. all these student groups i'm a ... or sipb? i used to care about them more. i wanted to fight for their ... that, because i wanted other people to experience the joys that i did. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog ... bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  semester has officially ended and I can happily say I've wrapped up the most successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and downs this semester, but I think it's been overall a net positive and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed myself, I worked, I went to school. There was one day, that November, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  I'm turning nineteen today, without much fanfare; after all, nineteen ... —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ability to push through difficult semesters, that I feel more comfortable

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  forced me to take stock of what relationships I’ve been able to form in this strange semester. So, as I wait for the news, I thought this might ... like, socially. And no matter how I try to frame it in my mind, making

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  fear." the first day of beginner swimming was last tuesday, and i viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to the pools. i remember milling around the locker room waiting for eleven

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  Oooooooohhhh boy. A new semester has begun! I know this post is kinda late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in stone before I regale y’all with all the details. I officially got off the

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020