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  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too ... brain cells to write something thoughtful right now, but submitting your

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  focus of 2.009 is trying to prove out ideas as quickly as possible. Often ... hours to oversee; Josh B. and Sally M., working on the tech review model ... amount of time relative to the effort it takes to generate a quick Solid

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As ... a recipe and more some notes on how I wing it: Slice to preference

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  just talking a problem out is enough to offer new insights on it. I cook ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your ... lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I ... like a farce, like a four-year-long audition, and then we would go on to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  range from challenges to weaknesses to baseball, poets from your ethnicity ... flew to California. The actual interviews take place on Saturday, but all Finalists attend the cocktail party on Friday night in order to meet each

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and ... organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... like that every week. Maybe it’d make more sense to plot it on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is ... myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don ... , diffuse, waiting to be molded into reality.

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every ... , bring a giant stuffed animal to your exams. Everyone’s week was way better ... to drive with my dad on a two-lane highway, stick shift, farms on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  , once I had the opportunity to ask: we're putting a rover on Mars / trying ... the only institution in the country willing to take on this level of ... opinions on whatever I happened to be working on. The big reason our

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  soften on the asphalt if you stand around. You’re three hours past a ... ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... to look like a chic tiny home. For further reading: Stephi Lee on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what ... tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me ... , and that I left campus to visit them every now and then. I went on a few ... think it's important to know that your college's way of doing things isn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  supposed to. (Hanging out with friends in my living group, going on road ... ). They're all students just like anyone, eager to meet new people... and it ... Okay, okay, so I've totally been slacking off on updates on my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  time to just stay in my room with the doors closed, put on some good ... , or DEAPS. The highlight of DEAPS was a trip to New Hampshire to scale ... -mo. Moments like sitting on a boat next to a friend and staring out into the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  to work on a double major, pursue other interests, or, if you're like ... depending on what your professor asked you to do. Either way, you're going to ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I ... 'm going to admit it to thousands of anonymous readers on the admissions

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018