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  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals ... kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... while, even if it sounds scary. You'll have a new story to tell, or maybe

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... Google in California, and successfully beginning well construction for my ... was getting chipped away at, bit by bit. Here is an excerpt from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  change day by day, to wiring or plumbing that only get replaced every few ... hope the new maintainers get recognition for their work too. You could ... to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  fingers when she gets overwhelmed, so it might work better for people to ... that people can cope with anxiety and panic attacks and get help for what ... thing to get under control when you are feeling overwhelmed and/or anxious

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

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... for 21W.758 aka. MIT.616). I'm usually really bad at talking to ... Workbar   I usually only go to Central for art supplies, so it's fun

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... – which is to say, crazy, fast-paced, unbelievable, terrifying, and ... up to the event. Our group chat was exploding with people asking for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself

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

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... . Read the blogs, that's what they're for. We try to make them interesting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  sent to several sororities, telling them about a new contest that ... , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll ... requests around now...that means new servers to overload

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  want to do when they get out. It means that the MISTI kids are precisely ... D students/post-docs so I’m again the youngin’. I’ve been able to get to know a ... interactions could lead to the development of better treatments for ischemic

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... mindset. Previously, it has not been difficult to “get by”, as in to pass ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the ... couldn’t just afford to go to bed. Coffee became my new best friend ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... -- once I tried to get my media out before the autoclave was done exhausting

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  conservation of energy you can’t go full circle. We get to watch preparations for ... convert’s hair. I get to ride the Big Flipper at Next House and sharpie my ... week to build and was up for another week after that, and the students

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• 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…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... . The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college ... that I just seem to keep getting older and older. Or maybe that I will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  David and Ali, but I’m especially grateful to them for taking me under ... [/annotation] rollercoaster. Our paper, titled “Paint By Word,” was on using input words to manipulate images generated by deep learning models, as shown above. For this

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

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... bomb! How come I've never used Doodle or Google Docs before coming to ... instinct? An MIT psyche? or a sign I need to get more of a life? HAHA.]

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009