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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  it makes perfect sense to build a laser into a lip balm tube. It has a ... had to make an automatic panorama from some images that we took (we wrote the code to make the panorama: basically, you detect features and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... the bus at the next stop #nailedit   Attempting to take a ... 's super approachable, kind, and down-to-earth and it turns out we have a lot

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

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As ... adding a dry seasoning mix at this stage to make up for the missing flavor ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... ’ll need a Windows machine to run SolidWorks, a 3D mechanical design program ... trip over the power cord. I’m a klutz. It’s important to me that my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  I had been matched to a research group led by an intellectual hero of ... 'd nailed, and I'd never had my ability to complete a course questioned by ... I decided I wanted to make a Twitter bot for my final project in CMS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever school I applied to so the rejection didn't make sense. "I want to know why

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks ... how to do it, you've waited too long. You'll raise expectations by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... by James M. Cain - This is a novella, and was originally published in ... don’t remember anything about it :P A Streetcar Named Desire by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I ... chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights ... of bed simply to switch out of a class that was too early before

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  blessed to have friends like these, to be surrounded by people who make me ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , and I built a bookshelf with Cory to hold our disassembled Legos. After

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  , making a computer 3D model isn’t the best way to start an idea ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... convey convincingly to others. The difference between a great idea and a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  sinking a little bit with each stroke you make, you'll have to work that ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  actually relax by not doing this to myself! I am taking a break from setting ... plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for ... the last few years, which makes it hard to be certain about where I

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

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch ... they should retake to raise them by 30 points. I hope that it gives you ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  to some extent -- you’ll be influenced by circumstance and will make ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... things that I've tried to live by or maybe wish I had realized when I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... friends was even a cast member two years ago), but I was always too lazy to ... a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024