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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs ... : MIThenge Anyways, besides the whole school part of this school, there are a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  over the course of the month and gradually show more bits of my life ... pushed off the first page! So I'm bumping it back up to the top because I ... stick a master list of all my vlogs at the top of the page with some handy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  PI (principal investigator, aka the head honcho of a lab), first author is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work (and hence gets the most credit), and the rest of the authors are

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  whole thing has a couple of parts: a class component the summer before ... ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a ... because of the labs and additional projects besides psets. Figure out how

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  that they have fingers and toes. I first start with the fingers. I have ... toe individually. Notice the soles of the feet, and then the entire foot ... to reach out and get help. Here are just a few of the awesome resources

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I ... the very start of the semester I got in a fight with a friend and her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  and then making the first, generous donation; Shannon Larkin of CMS ... Hopkinton, gave away my first pair of single-use sweatpants, and ran the ... starting line of the Boston Marathon. The ground will be cold, and probably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... surrounded by people who excel in every corner of the universe, and no longer ... . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow 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 / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to

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

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

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... with the family of one of my students, and they were warm and welcoming and generous (especially with helpings of pasta). I loved the affection

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  rumination and pages of beginnings. My first time, this happened under a full ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... the first place. And not because this will make writing your personal ... to keep the fire burning when it’s 3 am and you’re pipetting instead of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... that sounded like the first syllable or two of “congratulations,” so he ... , past the bottle of hand sanitizer and signs indicating which doors to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  disillusioned with graduate funding, and of the Academy in general. Imagine ... lag and continuous curry takeaway (the national dish of England), the ... , squeeze between an antiquarian bookseller and the Arts Theatre of Cambridge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , suitcases) full of paper folders back and forth from the office to read them ... them, I thought back upon the months of January and February, and how I ... another day, another week of committee. Rinse and repeat, so went the days

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  camaraderie and the solidarity of our aquatics team, we triumphed over our defeats and inevitably reached the pennant of victory." "Back in July, my ... no machine can tell you. You've been warned. Click.) 3. The first and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , when I had to spend the first night reading twenty dense pages of Plato ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole ... media studies, at just about 50 pages of double-spaced garamond, was the ... cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018