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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  which to stand, and slowly, surely get stronger with the help of my ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... 've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I ... agony of the blank page ever again.) I have some good news. Writing is

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1 ... , I manage to discombobulate the tiny bones in my wrist, and we all get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  to my room. For several weeks I kept getting emails about the leaky ... , and then fell behind again after getting sick from the flu shot. The ... I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get

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

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  on which I would allow myself to be captivated by the skyscrapers I ... Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  pushed off the first page! So I'm bumping it back up to the top because I ... sometimes. I'll probably post the video and then try to get a little more ... make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  Physics, that I would get to the last problem set that I would ever turn in ... , it was like 12 AM, and I was going to get a B in the class no matter ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... children are not sent to fetch water from wells) During the rainy season

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... shots), not by proximity to the bull’s eye. Usually I aimed at the bull ... , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• 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…

  

  an opening to introduce the Jim Mar Test. Used by Mar to evaluate ... by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the ... AeroAstro. I figured I was fascinated enough by planes and rockets to get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  gets in the way of your work or school, you have to deal with it and ... sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear ... opened the package later, it turned out to be two Amazon Echoes. Nothing

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

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• 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 ... get squeezed out of my Google Calendar. The weekends are an incredible

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the bus at the next stop #nailedit   Attempting to take a ... that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview

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

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  page, and it led us running to the Infinite Corridor where we found a map ... only by the right kind of light, we still weren’t able to finish the hunt ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... you: I have no doubt that you will get through this time to the ... to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  obnoxious biker about being seen. It can save your life. Get out to the city ... , you don’t have to say yes to the first UROP or job offer you get ... faster, plus they let you get to know the professors and TAs better and not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• 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 ... -- once I tried to get my media out before the autoclave was done exhausting ... week to working 40 hours; while during term I'm actually limited by the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006