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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  conversation, but a badly lit selfie and a quick hug would have to do. One day we ... freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you could interact with normally; you had to remain socially distanced from

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  pair of socks) but I came just in time to hear one of the Google ... , and then learn Google’s version of those languages. I got to learn their ... , using Google’s MapReduce system, I was able to compute and classify

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two ... broken out to reveal the night sky. The ceiling has three ceiling lights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  little time and talk to people, a lot of students will quickly realize ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  .[/annotation] I’m going to do a lot of googling to understand how the circuits work ... I want to switch into 8.02, that’s gotta happen today. This blog was not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  quickly fell to the wayside when I realized the department of aeronautics ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  figured out quickly; others were difficult and painful to learn. I ... ability to learn and quickly adapt is essential. 9. The Real World, Year 3 ... , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... Faulkner parser, but as of right now, I feel like I need to run MATLAB before

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... responded the same way we responded to all the questions about minimum SAT ... " to come here. I'd like to take that back, because of what happened on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick 2AM lift often turn to their in-building fitness facilities instead ... intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  quickly. i left with a painting by ria brodell that seemed to be part of a ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my ... family first because they’re eventually going to move there. That means that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... embarking on that new chapter quickly passed sometime early the following day

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  minutes left in my assignment. So - this will have to be quick. Consider ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012