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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  your mailing list? To the student groups, the Midway is one of the ... 've never had to make a decision this hard before. This is blatantly false ... people ever change? How do people learn to make decisions differently, if

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Christine Walley to get my HASS concentration form filled out. You're supposed ... ), so there's always plenty of time to have your points heard. 2:26 -- I ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce

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

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  being thawed makes your mouth water. You try to blink away your last ... your path, and add it to 9:10AM, your starting point. Did you make it to ... on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , I encourage you to stand up, shut off your communication devices, make ... before, songs will attach themselves to memories. Every month or two, make ... you back to your favorite moments. I gave it a shot, standing on a

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... reasons. With a little googling, you may even be able to find some of my ... blog entry because I have a ton of work to do for my employer (a company

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  your experience was like mine, many people were doubting you. To you ... ways to change your happiness: change your life, or change your mind ... from 3pm to 6pm, and didn't make much progress. So Thursday I pulled an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  . There are great regional bike maps - not to mention Google Maps Biking ... (GPA), Create your own Scraper Bike…(It Has To Be Amazing, Or Else You ... Bike King and his Captains will decide if your bike is up to standards

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ways to make websites; many students make their own personal websites ... it took to make these games come to life! a history WZ: Paolo was ... accomplishment? Seeing your name on the leaderboard from week to week? There

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness ... a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... president of your dorm as a junior. This is a beautiful thing, and not one to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• 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…

  

  fulfilling internship at a company I never expected to work for: Amazon, in ... in large teams to make these systems reality. These are notions and ... semicircular lecture hall as Professor David Darmofal, soon-to-be fluid

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

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

  

  based in LA (so many Google Hangouts!) and to have my opinion valued even ... was going to be making and selling some poetry zines of her work and ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  found writing code for Company X to be tedious. Now, I think this makes ... the last few years, which makes it hard to be certain about where I ... software company near Seattle, which I’ll call Company X, and was on track to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  centrifugal force. It's the force that makes you slam your head into the car window when you turn a corner sharply, and makes the seats in this ride ... center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  so far as much as we care about what you're going to do at MIT. As ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  idea what I wanted to do.  Focusing your job search on mechanical ... ask your boss if it sounds right. For crying out loud, you Google it. I ... of your time wading through the endless linkbait that is mitadmissions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  -coherent content and an intro paragraph beginning with Lorem ipsum to make me think I ... going to make that flight." Thought myself, Challenge accepted... I made ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  )plan. Whether it’s your major or your career, you’re young. You have time to make ... then on, I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to make it interesting. I wanted my story to be an adventure—and that’s made

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  story is to be continued.... Engine Behind every good chess website is a ... protochess differs in the approach, though. The first step to writing your own chess program is picking a way to represent your board. A natural approach

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  there was clearly no way I’d make it back to Nigeria in time. I spoke to ... were good. *** I’m not really going to talk about CPW or about making the ... of your life, I daresay it’s necessary to be invested. But at the same

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  spend your whole life doing what you love, but you also get to make a lot ... about what to do with your money. He can help you make smart decisions ... shot at the moon. You don't know what you're going to get. You just know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020