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  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence ... time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  had a Google Calendar (and I still don't use any form of electronic ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... new random obstacles along the way, like the herd of wandering cows and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... (researching at a Department of Defense Research and Development Laboratory ... provide a big initial voltage, then turn it down and set up some sort of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  weather and put on some clothes. It's kind of mediocre outside right now; it ... put a ton of stress on its internal structure, and cause it to break or ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

    N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best ... the culture and community of the different dorms. 4. The best events ... here. N: I can't tell you how many parents were on dorm tours and at

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... team, volunteered on the campus ambulance, and blogged not nearly often

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  now. Looking back was cool and provided a lot of chances to reflect on ... thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most ... of the most talented and intelligent students alive, and among them are

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and ... students returning from any type of leave, be it voluntary, medical, or

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of ... , and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat ... photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  each one of these admissions offices, and not one of them is MIT. On the ... Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and ... you meet those standards, you're in, and so are thousands of other

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  tireless clacking of keys and another day in software engineering heaven on ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... and Fravic. Carlos: WTF?) So, back to hackathons. A lot of relatively

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  scientist, but I'm also something of an engineer, and I've learned to be one both in and out of the classroom. In addition to all my neuroscience and ... and Interpretation of Computer Programs), 6.004 (Computation Structures

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  centimetre-thick book of medical advisory information, which she discarded; and ... 's fragments and, in the context of the story, are able to piece together what ... the end of orientation week, the student groups put on a show. The first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this video, made with love (though with poor video editing skills) and I hope

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... . “Of course I won’t,” he said. And then he did. But it was okay, because

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  spent too much of my earlier years laser-focused on getting my math and ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused, of using my body and my voice, of taking care of myself--things i am

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views ... and co-chair of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the father of modern linguistics, and one of Time's "100 Most

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of ... -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this milestone, we split into four sub-teams and worked on four ideas: my boot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An excess of yummy food is consumed. Reason 4 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  . One of the lifeguards noticed what was going on and offered to help out ... trivial, and certainly not a kind of negative stamp on who I was, it got ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015