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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s already left, that feeling of powerlessness about the whole thing. But it ... having all my stuff, and the other half of the room slowly becoming empty ... faculty lunches that the Office of the First Year was doing were canceled. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  perpetually watchful eyes of the internet and judgement as a whole. i also made ... first time commissioning art from people, and I had the following ... , and is set apart from the Major Arcana by being unnumbered. A first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... , the fun and stupid anecdotes of road tripping up the west coast, working ... 2019 The Tucson sun is sweltering, and the rubber of your shoes will

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  relieved from the duty and I breathed a sigh of relief. The 10am meeting ... announcements of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts. FIFA was not doing me a favor ... and my target completion time of 12pm (when I needed to leave for the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... of the whole box. There was a whole CD filled with MIT museum photos from 1969 (or so the label said), and it looks like a bunch of old

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  it up and be a big girl. I enlisted the help of my fellow bloggers so ... gather a group and sign up. So when Jebby did all the hard work of securing ... playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has ... procrastination, but work of the utmost and immediate importance. It may seem ... the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  contagious and made every part of the class a great experience.  First ... summary of those results and a full list of the classes submitted! All the ... : The Spanish Incubator (2) 2022 11.011: The Art and Science of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  -end. Front-end focuses on the parts of the website that you see, and back ... less so."]web development[/annotation] and the kind of code I wrote ... effects are. The cycle of doing something and seeing the result was short

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... and a big workspace with a bunch of chairs, tables, and couches on the ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  quiver in fear and make the whole world tremble with the power of your ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  rant about the administration and eat chocolate chips out of a bag as the ... made of snow and shadows and leans against the wall, melting his way in ... print it out. It is a diagram of the human nervous system in blue and red

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  classes, and the rest of the first day went pretty smoothly. We must learn ... purchases. During the first week of Spring HSSP, there weren't any huge ... directors and Cascade directors in the list of positions, but we didn't even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the ... this earlier in the year, and a grad student friend of mine said ... find a UROP, I should wander the halls of the department and knock on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  actually the very first blogger who had to apply for the position, and I ... be brave/bored enough to go back and read the whole mess. Being a ... of different ways over the past eight years and I feel so lucky to have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  continue giving my best every second of my life. And each day for the next ... another soul for sale, oh well The page is out of print, we are not ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  forth. The committee is entirely frosh, and we're excited! Some of us ... 's like and to represent our dorm. By the end of February, we've submitted the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and clocked into the material that they flew through it and I sort of ... material on my own. I bombed the first exam and got an email asking if I ... that we didn't understand (of which there were many). And the small class

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  first with: a] the things 1 - a book about conversations and norms ... to soak in the weather, thread bits of yarn through warp and weft, and ... hear about the mundanities and excitements of their daily lives (and to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025