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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  attempting an 8.01 pset. The room feels like a postwar battlefield, with drowsy ... in Boston was screening Interstellar a couple of times on Wednesday ... , but the work still got done and I walked away with a sense of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  first with: a] the things 1 - a book about conversations and norms ... with people in that stage of life, and it was strangely comforting to ... - with my friend Lee, a drawing machine  I meant to blog about this project

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He ... write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to ... ; it had the advantage of feeling like a friend I'd grown up with. If the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It ... ’s patients. Humanin is thought to work synergistically with other anti ... screen among known drugs for necrosis against a potential drug to see if

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  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 ... with age, which seems like bad programming. I don't particularly like ... your computer, once you buy your computer: A padded laptop bag with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  the MIT tunnels with beautiful murals that animate when you point a ... with beautiful murals that animate when you point a camera at it. We can ... screen, and it just feels like us, side-by-side, talking. And maybe you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that ... tells me there's something wrong with my microphone, which is the built-in one that came with the laptop when I bought it four years ago. I don

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  , whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... runneth WAY over with elation, disappointment, relief, exhilaration ... your journey. To all of you, thank you for trusting us with your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors ... out of unhappiness, but out of a kind of pride, mixed with astonishment ... coming out the other side, starting with,   1. When I left college

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

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by ... majors necessarily with exploration in mind. As one of my hallmates wisely ... or chemistry through positive experiences with intro classes in high

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  project, a tough debate round, or interactions with an overly ... play with categorization, text alignment, fonts, and colors. Figure 3 ... entire year? I plotted a bar graph with the total number of revisions per

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  with you all. We'll look at twelve catalogs, starting from the 1865 ... at catalogs every 10 years until we reach 2000–01. We'll end with some ... . MIT's first classes were held in 1865, and with the first classes came

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  watched Rocketman with two of my roommates. Out of seven people living in ... living room, sipping homemade sangria that was filled with fresh fruit and ... scene that really stuck with me was the last scene in the film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  that I didn't belong here.  In my second semester, I struggled a lot with ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a ... a suitcase, bought a one-way plane ticket, and moved in with Sarah ’09

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... street with the other MIT kids working in Austin this summer, and Vietnamese rice bowls with my coworkers. But not only have I been upping my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  college search process, newbies flood the boards with "chance" threads, in ... have). Especially when, as in the case with AdmissionSplash's parent ... them. Yet another reason to proceed with caution - or better yet, to not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  whale. A closer survey, perhaps with a telescope, reveals some ... start with my favorite episode, the Hugo-winning “The City on the Edge of ... William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon with Frank Borman and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  . 7:28pm: It's tough when writers have to balance their articles with ... from my multi-tasking with editing Wikipedia – was the fact that in the ... -700 words). I have been working with its writer – Margaret '13 – on

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  with me past midnight trying (and failing) to build a snowman. I’m sorry ... only two are technical heavy-workload classes. I had started off with an ... , sometimes scientific, sometimes philosophical. It was a small class, with

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018