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  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  when I was at MIT (on the crew) and on top of that I had a job, did ... is true in all of our activities, and equally true on our sports teams ... , meeting and talking with a lot of students and guidance counselors about MIT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  -state. Two exams per week - on top of psets and labs - is now just average. And then when Hell Hell - the inner circle of stress and conflicts - rolled ... my clubs on campus. And schoolwork occupies so much of my field of view

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . And at MIT, where a 59 on an exam can be a B, the feeling of failure at ... , the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018, I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  did so on the heels of a more developed sense of what the university and ... of your control, and regardless of what that letter you see on Pi Day ... For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  this morning about the history of the blogs and their influence on the ... This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of ... began following the lives of Ben, Matt, and Mitra. Soon after, Sam and I

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  was this surreal sense of joy in the air. If you ask any student on ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just ... purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... honest. And (to bring us to the meat of this post) when I leave my house

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  . But in finance, I wouldn’t be able to work on any of that. While I would ... , be some amount of risk and uncertainty in any decision you make, and ... I am starting this post on Thursday, April 8, 2021, and today, it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  completely, landed on the side of my foot, and limped away while trying to play ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... and checked off a huge goal on our season bucket list! It really doesn

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  and then Alan knocked on the walls of the train, which were patterned ... any of these. It’s known that the card takes its name from Charlie on ... point, we’re kind of tired and the rush no longer has any meaning to us

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  . I’ve kept on working on the new book I’ve been thinking of, and I ... , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This didn’t manifest any more than just a weird feeling swooshing around, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  full of ceramic tiles and the wind on the water again. The sound of and ... that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned ... trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it ... come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  you received. I can't (and don't) expect any of this to change how you ... 've been able to sit with you in your home and hear a snapshot of your life ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  number of times, and, based on the number of presses, the system will look up trivia on the number of presses occurred from a NumbersAPI and ... are up and out of bed by requiring you to place your feet on the

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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... good at math. My personality consisted of being good at math and enjoying ... magic tricks that I read and reread. It had dog ears on every other page

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  while we will miss out on and oddly* miss part of that ... 's in 6.009 by the skin of our teeth, and we spent more time on this class ... combine any Engineering field and any Humanities field. It’s different from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  tomorrow and haven’t started any of them because you spent so much time ... Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question ... bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  grades and outgrew the small staircases, my place in the hierarchy of smart ... problem of “was valedictorian and suddenly isn’t the baddest fish in the sea ... of relief off my face had barely dried from acceptance and I was

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects ... have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? It ... had stopped working, leaving a puddle on the floor and a collection of

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