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  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to ... rationality is some people's holy grail. emotions get in the way of reason but

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  this spring. This blog post is part of my research proposal. I have discovered a new application for Newton’s Law of Conservation of Energy, which ... understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  points. If you lose control of your attitude, two things happen: (1) you ... is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why they’re equipped with suites of sensors and actuators dedicated to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to ... culture of 'It doesn't exist? Why not? Let's do it!' And that - I found

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  other blogs. I do read all of your comments, and even if I don't respond ... personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to reprint comments from two of our Educational Counselors (ECs), Greg H and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  lot of living groups have free breakfast on exam mornings, then ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  engineering that was based off of my initial comment that I've never experienced ... 'm done with all of this deep discussion about admissions and learning from ... lot of time to show me things. (Each crew must have at least 2 people- a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of ... plain left blank...but the cool part was that I got nearly 100% correct of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which ... individual, not as part of a group. However, you are allowed to collaborate ... with a lab component), have lab groups. Some have a series of smaller lab

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... a quarter pound of fudge to hold us over until dinner. While buying the fudge, the fat young man ahead of us in line noted that it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... place) The Journey to Heathrow, Fortress of the Skies The few days

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... caffeinated because I don't like the taste of coffee, I usually prefer

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  every blog I've ever blogged has come directly out of frenzy it ... gremlin takes over do any of those ideas make it out   all creative ... of ideas   in another life, I could have been a painter (I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best subway system in the world, of course, but I remember riding the Red Line ... about the minimum number of T stops you’d need to pass in order to go to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water ... experiences.  Within our large and exceptionally talented pool of applicants, students routinely produce impressive academic portfolios of achievement and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... continuity, like living groups. other groups collapse, often from a cascade of small failures. a single bad recruitment cycle goes by, maybe because of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  one There's this thing called a "cruft house", when a group of MIT ... Bunker. The first night the three of us moved into our new place, I insisted we come up with a name. The three of us-Sathwik, Rohan, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  with 👀, but do I want to dox my Reddit account to all of you? No. I ... me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it ... it that time of year already? What was going wrong with me? I went

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... overcame some of my fears. I'd been meaning to start the UROP search earlier

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021