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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  minds. Well, let’s have a tour of the clean, organized and happy version ... Plan. B. I like that these pictures are some of the first things I see when I wake up and get out of bed in the morning (besides my alarm). The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue ... , surreal moment for me, and that quote was the first thing to pop into my ... story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  classes that fulfill me instead of the ones that are required, and ... , and the environment). I will drop two of these. I promise. (I do not ... today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  .0002[/annotation] pset and turned it in without passing all of the tests. The thing ... requirement for many of the classes I wanted to take, and as much as the content ... weeks, which have been >> First week of November Saturday (not

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  't learned any of the material that it covers, you have to go to lecture first ... of the week and throw you all off balance. Kinda like taking a shape ... are at least two reasons behind this, one that's my choosing and the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  computing to practicing for the upcoming performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and much more. And let's not forget the value of simply chilling ... feeling the pain appropriately). And even beyond the classroom, MIT students

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can ... long stretch of road that connects many of the sleepy and dusty rural ... bumpkin, being easily impressed with all the sights and sounds of the big

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation ... ’s Jane Austen class and it was the highlight of my semester. The lit

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  home the night before my first J-Lab oral exam and found a sweet note on ... and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an ... , and consumed something on the order of 5-10 each. It was a fabulous mood

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  the time of that statement, this would correspond to Wilt having slept ... around two major projects: a minuet in the Baroque style and an art song in the traditional style of lieder. This semester Dr. Elena Ruehr, who has

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His ... the only remaining wookie. I must go now and weep gently. May my beard catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  Interesting Work I Do As An MIT Student, and also a lot of the work I've been up ... over the summer, and by the end of each semester I would be extremely ... morning, and eagerly awaiting the return of my best friend, who flies home

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it ... spend the rest of the night playing overcooked and drawful in the floor ... auditorium, i took the stairs down and sat in one of the chairs in the corner

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  % of students got their first choice in the summer lottery and 26% got ... choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  of myself for doing these things, and even though it seems kind of ... scouring sites like Reddit to try and figure out what the CS Bros recommended ... manager. At this point, I was already somewhat familiar with the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  distracted. Go to the mall with Kel '10 because we're hungry and tired of the ... .03 recitation. 2 PM - please don't let me screw up the first two exams of term ... term. 9 PM - Check email. Have made it through the first round of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  be capable of divining a chart known as "The Table of Contents" and ... the rigors of the MIT curriculum, living away from home, and making new ... . Personally, I didn't take any of these advanced courses, and I felt it WAS the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  craziness of the semester is already over, that I have completed my finals and ... at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the ... home, heading away from the bubble of MIT towards the place I grew up. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  new goodies. The first, and most notable, is the glasses-free 3D top ... table. You can then walk around the card and look at all the sides of the ... are all sorts of different stances and poses you can put the characters

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two cakes and six cupcakes ...they may or may not resemble astronomical objects.

  

  observations of the cake. We're nerdy and we know it. ... I mentioned that I'm in the midst of a summer research program at the ... here with me, and one of them turned 21 three weeks ago. I mentioned that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2012